Tuesday, 14 January 2025

South Africa: Norfolk, Osprey, Wild Rose & Julia Luckenbach shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Unknown ship in Walvis Bay, Namibia

September 23:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1850: Norfolk, this wooden sailing schooner wrecked on Seal Island in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.

1865: Osprey, this sailing schooner wrecked on the East Bank of the Buffalo River in East London in the Eastern Cape.

1872: Wild Rose, this wooden sailing barque wrecked in a south-easterly gale on Orient Beach in East London in the Eastern Cape.

1943: Julia Luckenbach, this steam-powered ship collided with the British Resolution on this day and foundered, south of Cape Agulhas in the Western Cape.

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