Saturday, 27 July 2024

South Africa: Sterrenschans, Zeeland, Badger, Alice, Sea Service, An-Hung 1, P1551 & Majimoto shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Karimona shipwreck in Namibia in 1978

May 22:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1793: A north-westerly gale struck Table Bay in the Western Cape and claimed two Dutch vessels on this day, leading both to wrecking on the shore:

• Sterrenschans, a brigantine (probably a ‘hoeker’);

• Zeeland, an East Indiaman

1833: Badger, this vessel wrecked in Simon's Bay in False Bay in the Western Cape. Very little is known about it.

1964: Alice, this motor-powered vessel was lost near Arniston in the Western Cape.

1988: Sea Service, this motor-powered launch foundered off Mouille Point in Table Bay in the Western Cape.

1990: An-Hung 1, this motor-powered Taiwanese trawler ran aground and wrecked after its engines failed at Gruis Beach, near Pearly Beach in the Western Cape.

2002: P1551, this motor-powered rescue launch encountered engine failure and drifted ashore, to become a wreck, near Scarborough off the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape.

2021: Majimoto, this South African yacht lost its rudder and wrecked just north of the Great Kei River Mouth in the Eastern Cape.

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