SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Unknown shipwreck in Walvis Bay, Namibia
September 22:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1862: Lucy Johnson, this American sailing barque wrecked on Woodstock Beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape after its cables parted shortly after dark.
1972: A United Air Volpar Turboliner II (registration no. ZS-PRA) had refuelled at Jan Smuts Airport in Gauteng and shortly after take-off requested to land again. This was granted and then radio contact was lost. The plane then nosedived into the ground, at a 45-degree angle, and disintegrated upon impact. The two pilots and 1 passenger lost their lives as well as two people on the ground.
2004: The SA Navy scuttled two vessels on this day, off Cape Point in the Western Cape at Pandora:
• SAS Sekhukhuni, a Navy strike craft; and
• Zinder, a South African fishing vessel.
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