SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Skeleton Coast (Namibia) shipwreck
May 3:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1786: An unknown French schooner was lost near the Palmiet River mouth near Kleinmond in the Western Cape.
1914: Lyna, this Norwegian wooden barque was damaged by heavy seas and was condemned in Port Elizabeth in Algoa Bay the Eastern Cape.
1934: Talana, this steam-powered South African fishing vessel (a tug tender) was badly holed under the engine room after striking rocks off Sandy Point near Cape Morgan in the Eastern Cape. It filled rapidly with water and remained fast on the reef, believed to have become a wreck.
1938: Sir John Robinson, this steam-powered steel and iron British tug was delisted as it had been scrapped in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.
1968: Phyllisia, this steam-powered South African fishing trawler sank south of Olifantsbos off the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape.
1977: P87, this motor-powered, wooden South African Navy patrol boat was scuttled in False Bay in the Western Cape during a naval exercise.
1993: Alkar II, this fishing vessel was scuttled by the South African Navy off Cape Point in the Western Cape during a naval exercise.
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