SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Shipwreck, Skeleton Coast, Namibia
May 18:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1818: A north-westerly gale blew into Table Bay in the Western Cape resulting in the wrecking of 4 vessels:
• Farleton, this British sailing brig was driven ashore, becoming a wreck and eventually breaking up.
• Jane, this British sailing snow was driven ashore near the castle, where it wrecked.
• Pacquet Real, this Portuguese brig (a slaver) was driven ashore and wrecked. It was on a voyage from Mozambique to the Bahamas with 167 enslaved people on board when it was put in quarantine in Table Bay. The gale drove it ashore where it broke up rapidly with a heavy loss of life. During the 1950s an excavation at Fort Knokke revealed a mass grave containing approximately 19 skeletons. These remains were analysed in 1996 and were thought to have been victims of this wreck.
• Rambler, this wooden British sailing schooner was driven ashore to become a wreck in Table Bay.
1831: Thorne, this wooden British sailing vessel wrecked after encountering thick fog near Robben Island in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1852: Courier, this wooden British sailing schooner ran ashore and wrecked near Imhoff Battery in Table Bay in the Western Cape after its cables parted in a north-westerly gale.
1954: Two motor-powered whalers, the Oostewal and Perelberg were driven ashore to become wrecks near Meeuw Island in the Langebaan Lagoon in the Western Cape. They were stationed at Donkergat before the whaling operations ceased.
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