South Africa: Angus shipwreck

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Otavi shipwreck in Namibia

April 22:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1908: Angus, this South African steam-powered fishing trawler wrecked on the northern end of Bird Island in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape. One report suggests that it was just grounded as opposed to having wrecked, but others indicate that the Angus was put between Bird Island and the mainland for shelter, struck a rock, and wrecked.

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South Africa: Timor, Bonanza & Swan shipwrecks

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December 22:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1856: Timor, this wooden sailing barque wrecked in a south-easterly gale between Robben Island and Whale Rock in Table Bay in the Western Cape.

1894: Bonanza, this wooden sailing barque wrecked on Orient Beach in East London in the Eastern Cape after having lost steerage and becoming unmanageable whilst entering the Buffalo River. 

1933: Swan, this wooden steam-powered and auxiliary sailing fishing vessel wrecked at Margate Ridge at Margate in KwaZulu-Natal.

2013: A British Airways 747-436 (registration no. G-BNLL) was written off after sustaining substantial damage during a taxi accident at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg in Gauteng.

The plane wing in the damaged building

The lights and signage which guided planes from taxiway B to where it merged with taxiway A towards runway 03L were inoperable and the crew missed the curve at night and proceeded on the much smaller taxiway M, where the plane’s right wing struck a building next to the taxiway, injuring four workers on the second floor. The plane was immobilized and after a fuel leak was contained, passengers and crew were deplaned.

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