SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Arkona shipwreck in Namibia
August 1:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1849: Hope, this coasting schooner wrecked in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1860: Admiraal de Ruyter, this Dutch frigate ran aground in False Bay in the Western Cape and was condemned.
1866: Lively, this wooden fishing cutter wrecked on Malgas Island just off Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape.
1886: Durban, this iron British steam-powered ship was lost near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. Very little is known about this vessel.
1888: The Tweed, this sailing clipper was dismasted in a storm and then ran aground in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape. It was broken up and sold off shortly after.
1891: Wallarah, this three-masted British steam-powered ship ran aground on the rocks at Dassen Island in the Western Cape due to a strong current in thick fog, becoming a wreck. It was on its maiden voyage from London to Sydney with a general cargo.
1942: Kalewa, this British freighter foundered and sank within ten minutes after its starboard side was badly damaged after being rammed by the Danish vessel Boringia off the Northern Cape coast. The Boringa picked up all the survivors and no lives were lost.
1957: Frean, this Dutch coaster (on charter to Thesens at the time) wrecked near Port Nolloth in the Northern Cape.
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