SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Gertrud Woerman wrecked near Swakopmund, Namibia
June 2:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1792: De Drie Gebroeders, this wooden Dutch flute was beached after springing a leak and subsequently became a wreck in Simon's Bay in False Bay in the Western Cape.
1850: British Settler, this South African schooner disappeared during a severe storm just outside of Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape on the 2nd of June. A woman and a man washed ashore near Jacobs Bay with the tickets in their pockets allowing the authorities to conclude that the vessel must have foundered.
1905: Trichera, this iron German barquentine was lost about 1.5 km south of the Greenpoint Lighthouse near Scottburgh in KwaZulu-Natal. It was lost during one of the worst storms to hit the KwaZulu-Natal coastline. The captain and eight of the crew drowned and the vessel’s cargo of 80 000 railway sleepers littered the beach afterwards.
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