SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Benguela Eagle shipwreck in Namibia
July 9:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1824: Mary, this wooden-hulled sailing vessel wrecked near De Bakke beach in Mossel Bay in the Western Cape after it came into the bay for water.
1862: Silistria, this sailing barque was supposedly last seen burning off Knysna in the Western Cape on this day. The crew was taken off by the Ramillies and landed at St Helena. There are however two other reports, one of which claims that the burning vessel was actually the Rose and another that claims the Silistria wrecked in September of this year instead. More research is needed to confirm this and to clear up the confusion.
1929: Guerdon, this steel steam-powered ship was abandoned due to engine trouble near the Msikaba River mouth in the Eastern Cape where it wrecked. Its boiler is supposedly visible on Sikombe Beach.
1930: Jupiter, this iron steam-powered ship was written off in 1925 and sold as a wreck. On this day, five years later it was finally condemned in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.
1971: Francis Repetto, this motor-powered fishing trawler sunk whilst under tow about 15 km from Robben Island in the Western Cape.
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