SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Natal Coast wrecked in Namibia
August 26:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1840: Papineaux, this British wooden-hulled brig was anchored near the Salt River mouth in Table Bay in the Western Cape when its anchor cables parted, and it was driven into the mouth where it became a wreck.
1843: Elizabeth Rowell, this wooden-hulled snow was the last of four vessels to have wrecked during the south-easterly gale in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape.
1884: Charles Jackson, this wooden-hulled barque wrecked in a north-easterly gale on Back Beach in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.
1887: Manhegan, this wooden-hulled barque wrecked about 32 km south of Hondeklip Bay in the Northern Cape.
1892: Modesta, this wooden-hulled schooner wrecked in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape.
1892: Galera, this wooden-hulled barque wrecked after its cables parted during a south-easterly gale in Mossel Bay in the Western Cape. There are some reports of the wreck being dived on in 1983, with very little of the wreck being visible.
1974: Harvest Pluto, this fishing vessel foundered with the loss of all 14 lives on board after colliding with the Pearl Merchant about 80 km west of Dassen Island in the Western Cape.
1986: Peter S, this steel-hulled fishing trawler wrecked on rocks about 6 km west of the Gouritz River mouth in the Western Cape.
1992: Costa de Nigeria, this Spanish fishing vessel foundered in heavy weather east of Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal.
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