SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Unknown vessel in Walvis Bay, Namibia
September 21:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1862: Susan, this wooden sailing schooner wrecked on Woodstock Beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1870: Eliza and Alice, this barque wrecked just off Mostert's Hoek in Cape St. Francis in the Eastern Cape.
1917: Eugenie S Embericos, this steel steam-powered freighter ran aground on this day east of Great Fish Point in the Eastern Cape after presumably a strong inset current, thick fog, and navigational error as the only chart on board of the South African coast was found to be from 1865. Over the next two years, attempts were made to try and refloat the freighter, but by October of 1919 these were abandoned.
1933: Strathclyde, this iron sailing schooner was scuttled about 8 km off the coast of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.
1971: Eugeni Livanos, this tanker was badly holed after striking Aliwal Shoal in KwaZulu-Natal and was scrapped in Durban harbour. Our records are incomplete on whether the scrapping occurred on this day or whether the impact with Aliwal Shoal occurred on this day.
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