SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
May 28:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1821: De African, this wooden Dutch sailing vessel was put into Table Bay in the Western Cape on the 8th of May as a result of having sprung a leak. On this day, the 28th, it was broken up and sold off.
1852: Amatola, this iron sailing schooner wrecked whilst trying to enter the Buffalo River in East London in the Eastern Cape. It was the first official casualty of the Buffalo River.
1859: Shepherdess, this wooden British barque sprang a leak and wrecked on Thunderbolt reef near Cape Recife in the Eastern Cape. Twelve people were lost during the wrecking.
1882: Christina, this wooden British/South African coasting schooner wrecked on Central beach in Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape. It struck a blinder, resulting in the loss of its rudder and holing its starboard bilge. It was run aground on Central beach where it was left high and dry and was later condemned.
1900: America, this steam-powered British barquentine was abandoned on Woodstock Beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape, after a fire had broken out in the fore hold. Attempts to refloat it continued into August, but these were unsuccessful.
1930: Tordenskjold, this steam-powered British/South African whaler was scuttled just outside of Durban Harbour in KwaZulu-Natal. It had foundered 15 years earlier but was refloated.
1984: Katsuei Maru 58, this motor-powered Japanese fishing vessel ran aground and wrecked near Quoin Point in the Western Cape.
The image shows how quickly wrecks on the rocks can be broken up as it was captured in 1995, only 11 years after the Katseui Maru 58 (1984) wrecked
2022: A Beechcraft B200 King Air (registration no. ZS-PTE) failed to take off from a small 1 km long runway at the Lynedoch Private Airfield in the Western Cape, crashing into a duiker and a tree after skidding off the runway. The pilot attempted to takeoff twice, but reported that the uneven surface caused the aircraft to bounce resulting in both of these attempts being unsuccessful.
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