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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