SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
May 6:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1740: De Visch, this Dutch East Indiaman ran ashore at night while attempting to come to anchor in a stiff gale near the Green Point lighthouse in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
A painting depicting the wrecking event of De Visch (1740), by Jürgen Leewenberg in 1740, housed in the National Library of South Africa
Accounts of the casualties differ, with some claiming that the sick on board, who were below decks drowned along with one other person, and another account claims that only two men and a boy drowned. Today, granite blocks, that were part of the cargo, can still be seen littered at the wreck site.
1927: Ulundi II, this composite British steam-powered tug was scuttled south west of Cape Recife in the Eastern Cape.
The Ulundi II (1927) ferrying passengers around 1903 in Algoa Bay
1976: Larkspur, this South African fishing vessel was scuttled by the South African Navy during a naval exercise off the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape.
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