SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Otavi shipwreck in Namibia
May 2:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1819: Nossa Senhora D'Guia, this wooden Portuguese brig was driven ashore by a north-westerly gale and subsequently wrecked on Woodstock Beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1870: St. Austell, this wooden British schooner wrecked in a gale near Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape.
1879: Tancred, this wooden British barque, while in tow by the Somtseu, ran aground on Anabella Bank at the entrance to the Durban harbour in KwaZulu-Natal. Although the Somtseu and the Forerunner attempted to refloat the Tancred, they were unsuccessful, and when it came unstuck eventually, it was driven onto the beach where it became a total wreck.
1893: Eugenie, this wooden British sailing barque ran aground near the Kieskamma River mouth in the Eastern Cape and was abandoned after being dismasted, becoming a wreck.
1970: Irene, this motor-powered South African launch foundered in heavy seas and dense fog off Mouille Point in Cape Town in the Western Cape.
2008: Sibanya, this South African lobster fishing vessel foundered after striking a reef just south of Dassen Island off the west coast in the Western Cape. One life was lost.
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