SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Benguela Eagle shipwreck in Namibia
August 24:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1844: Prince Albert, this wooden-hulled brig wrecked after its cables parted during a south-easterly gale in Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape.
1849: Enchantress, this wooden-hulled schooner missed its stays off Green Point and anchored shortly after, but its cables parted, and it was driven onto the rocks where it wrecked between Green Point and Mouille Point in the Western Cape.
1877: Charmer, this British full-rigged wooden ship wrecked on Dyer Island in the Western Cape.
1911: Lyndhurst, this steel-hulled four masted barque’s cargo of petrol caught alight and it was abandoned at sea about 100 km from Mossel Bay in the Western Cape. Its floating wreck was scuttled on this day by the HMS Pandora as it posed a danger to navigation.
1974: An Emric Air Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander (registration no. ZS-IZZ) crashed on this day near Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal. Very little is known about this incident.
1998: An Airworld/Speed Service Couriers Turbo DC-3 (registration no. ZS-NKK) crashed during takeoff from Wonderboom airport in Gauteng resulting in the death of the pilot in command. The accident report found that there was no pre-flight inspection by the pilots and the elevator trim had been set to nose-up and not been returned to neutral by the maintenance engineer during an inspection. As a result, the pilot lost control of the aircraft during takeoff as the nose pitched up during a rotation movement.
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