South Africa: Oste, Oaklands, Clan Lindsay & Nautilus shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

March 20:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1859: Oste, this sailing vessel wrecked in a south easterly gale near Blaauwberg Beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape.

1860: Oaklands, this wooden sailing barque wrecked near the Coega River Mouth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.

1898: Clan Lindsay, this British steel steam-powered cargo ship was en-route from Clyde in Scotland to Mauritius with a general cargo when it was wrecked on the eponymous Clan Lindsay Rocks in Mazeppa Bay in the Eastern Cape.

The Clan Lindsay (1898) after having wrecked, with cargo salvage operations underway

1934: Nautilus, this steel steam-powered dredger was scuttled off the Durban coast in KwaZulu-Natal.

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March 14: This day in South African shipwreck History

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

See also: Namibian shipwrecks

March 14:

“This day in South African shipwreck History”

1838: St Clair, this wooden sailing vessel wrecked in a south easterly gale off Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape with the loss of several lives (the exact number being unknown). 

1843: Conservative, this wooden sailing vessel wrecked north of Yzerfontein, possibly near Vondeling Island in the Western Cape. Its wrecking was under mysterious circumstances as there was no indication of how it wrecked, with six bodies later being washed ashore that confirmed suspicions that it had wrecked. 

1864: Sappho, this wooden sailing barque wrecked in a south easterly gale at Blaauwbergstrand in Table Bay in the Western Cape.

1866: Portsmouth, this sailing brig wrecked after its cables parted in a north westerly gale just east of the Coega River Mouth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape. The cook drowned whilst trying to swim to shore. 

1982: Cape Point, this steel-hulled motor-powered fishing trawler wrecked after running onto rocks south of the Gourits River mouth in the Western Cape.

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