SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Kolmanskop shipwreck near Swakopmund in Namibia
June 15:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1828: Importer, this wooden British brig ran ashore at night on Woodstock Beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape. Although it was got off after its cargo had been discharged, it was condemned on the 20th.
1862: Valleyfield, this wooden British barque, in heavy seas and a thick haze, struck the rocks just off Green Point Lighthouse in the Western Cape and broke up within 10 minutes. All nine on board drowned.
1866: Alfred, this vessel wrecked near East London in the Eastern Cape.
1905: The steam powered paddle-tug John Paterson towed four fishing vessels out of Kalk Bay harbour in False Bay in the Western Cape the night of the 14th of June. They were due back the following day, but the John Paterson ran out of coal and in heavy seas and a strong gale, it drifted towards Danger Point where it rammed and caused the sinking of two of the steam-powered fishing vessels, the Boela and the Sea Star. The crews of both vessels were safely rescued by the John Paterson.
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