SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
May 27:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1698: Het Huys te Craijestein, this Dutch East Indiaman wrecked in thick fog off the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape. Remains of this vessel can still be seen on the seabed amongst the rocks near Oudekraal on the Cape peninsula.
One of the anchor’s of Het Huys te Craijestein (1698) that is still visible on site
1709: Nagel, this wooden Dutch galiot wrecked after a fire burned it down to the waterline in Kraalbaai, in Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape. It was used to transport goods around the Cape Colony and was being used as a fishing vessel when it was lost.
1871: Gambia, this three-masted British steam-powered ship wrecked at the then North Jetty in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. Its propellors were fouled by a snapped towing cable which was being used to tow the Maritana, which had been abandoned in a leaking condition. The wreck lay there for 22 years before it was demolished with explosives.
1890: Hollandia, this Dutch barque wrecked in False Bay in the Western Cape and four lives were lost because of the wrecking.
The Gambia (1871) after having run aground with its fouled propellor
1891: Louise, this Norwegian wooden sailing barque wrecked on the bar while being towed into the Buffalo River in East London in the Eastern Cape during heavy seas.
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