SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Unknown shipwreck in Namibia
July 18:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1841: Felix Vincidor, this wooden-hulled schooner, which had been detained by the HMS Clio, was driven ashore, and wrecked at night on Muizenberg Beach in False Bay in the Western Cape.
1850: London, this sailing vessel wrecked after its cables parted in a north-westerly gale in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1874: Santos, this wooden-hulled schooner wrecked on a reef after its cables parted in a heavy swell on the eponymous Santos Beach in Mossel Bay in the Western Cape.
1878: Caledonian, this wooden hulled barque wrecked on Woodstock beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape after its cables parted in a north-westerly gale. It had sprung a leak whilst en route and when it wrecked, the captain and three of the crew drowned.
1889: No. 18, this sail-propelled lighter foundered in the Outer Anchorage of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal after it had sprung a leak.
1889: Fidia de Genoa, this wooden-hulled barque wrecked north of the Umkhomazi River in KwaZulu-Natal. It encountered heavy seas during its journey, sustaining damage and springing several leaks. Because of the terrible weather and the state of the vessel, the captain had been unable to take regular observations. When they saw a buoy that was on Aliwal Shoal, they thought that they had overshot Durban. As the pumps were choked and all seemed lost at this point, the decision was made to beach the barque. The captain and two of the crew drowned as a result, with the remainder of the crew surviving.
1890: Ianthe, this wooden sailing barque wrecked off Cliff Point near the Holgat River in the Northern Cape. Some of the crew managed to make it back to Port Nolloth with a lifeboat, leaving five of the crew behind. Rescuers arrived a day later with two of those left behind never being seen again. It was presumed that they had drowned.
1923: Golden Crown, this iron steam-powered coaster ran aground during thick fog on Robben Island in Table Bay in the Western Cape. The tug Ludwig Wiener rescued the crew the next morning. The wreck site was discovered by Dr. Bruno Werz and identified in 1992 with its boiler and the letters ‘D’ and ‘E’ on the deckhouse of the wreck.
1942: Galaxy, the British steel-hulled steam-powered trawler wrecked near Cape St. Francis in the Eastern Cape. All hands were lost and of its crew of 15, only five bodies were recovered after they washed ashore at the mouth of the Krom River.
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