Thursday 26 September 2024

South Africa: Mary & Trio-Triomf shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Skeleton Coast, Namibia

July 8:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1899: Mary, a wooden-hulled British cutter foundered after striking wreckage whilst trying to enter the Storms River Mouth in the Eastern Cape.

1945: A SAAF Douglas DC-3 (registration no. 6847) crashed with the loss of one of the crew of four during a military exercise in Pretoria in Gauteng.

1981: Trio-Triomf, this wooden-hulled fishing trawler was caught in heavy seas and ran aground on a reef near the Gourits River mouth in the Western Cape. The crew was rescued by helicopter.

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