List of shipwrecks in South Africa
List of shipwrecks in South Africa, A shipwreck is the remains of a ship that has wrecked, it having either been sunk or beached. A shipwreck can refer to a wrecked ship or to the event that caused the wreck, such as the striking of something that causes the ship to sink, the stranding of the ship on rocks, land or shoal, or the destruction of the ship at sea by violent weather. This list of shipwrecks is a list of those sunken ships whose remains have been located.
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Eastern Cape
Western Cape
- Arniston a British East Indiaman, requisitioned for troop transport, wrecked near Waenhuiskrans (now called Arniston), Western Cape on 30 May 1815.[4]
- HMS Birkenhead a British iron-hulled troopship that struck a submerged rock near Gansbaai, Western Cape on 26 February 1852.[5]
- BOS 400 ran aground on Duiker point after breaking loose while being towed around the Cape Peninsula by the tug Tigr in a storm in June 1994.[6]
- Blougans, sunk near Infanta, Western Cape.
- British Peer, a three-masted iron sailing ship. Ran aground in 1896 near the Cape of good hope.[7]
- Cospatrick A wooden 3-masted full-rigged sailing ship. Caught fire and sank 17 November 1874 with a loss of 369 souls.[8]
- HMS Guardian, a 44-gun Roebuck Class ship laid down in 1780. Severely damaged by an iceberg in 24 December 1789, the ship was sailed an amazing 400 leagues to the Cape of Good Hope where she was intentionally grounded.[9]
- Ikan Tanda Cargo ship ran aground near Cape Town in 2001. Re-floated, but scuttled 200 miles from shore.[10]
- Joanna, the first East Indiaman to be wrecked off the South African coast. Wrecked near Cape Town in 1682. A considerable amount of gold was on the ship.[11]
- Johanna Wagner a Prussian barque that ran ashore due to navigational error near Muizenberg on 15 July 1862.[12]
- SS Maori a Shaw Savill Line steamship wrecked near Llandudno, Cape Town on 5 August 1909.[13]
- HMS Pelorus, a British Algerine-class minesweeper built in 1943. Scuttled in 1994 to make an artificial reef at Miller's Point near Simon’s Town, South Africa.[14]
- SAS President Kruger A South African frigate, sank after a collision with a refueling ship.[15]
- HMS Sceptre, a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Ran aground, 5 November 1799 near the Cape of good hope.[16]
- HMS Thames a former Mersey class cruiser that became famous as the SATS General Botha, a merchant naval training ship. After retiring as a training ship, she reverted back to her original name and was sunk in False Bay near Simon's Town as a target.[17]
- SS Thomas T. Tucker a Houston built munitions carrier ran ashore on Oliphantsbos point, south of Olifantsbos Bay, near Cape Point on 27 November 1942.[18]
- MV Seli 1 a Turkish bulk carrier that ran aground on Bloubergstrand near Table Bay on the morning of 18 September 2009.
- Wafra, an oil tanker that grounded near Cape Agulhas on 28 February 1971.
- Waterloo, a British convict ship, driven ashore in Table Bay by a storm on 28 August 1842, together with the Abercrombie Robinson, a troop transport.
List of shipwrecks in South Africa (Table)
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