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R H Morrow Hout Bay Hout Bay harbour - According to Marsh this vessel grounded off Mouille Point
under SW Quay on 26 June 1903 after leaving Table Bay harbour. She
(?) found the indraught off Mouille Point stronger than usual
and was forced ashore. She was towed off by tugs. The
fact that she was hulked in Hout Bay - date unknown -
may mean that she was too damaged to repair after her
grounding - this needs to be checked. When she grounded
she was bound from Cape Town to the Turks Islands in
ballast with a crew of 15 aboard. She was registered in
Maitland, N.S. According to Van der Bosch and info at the
Fisheries Museum in Hout Bay, she was converted to a
canning factory and later burned out. Her bones may be
under the south-western (Snoekies) quay in Hout Bay
Harbour.
Rhein Kommetjie Slangkop Touched the rocks in dense fog, believed herself to be 1930/01/25
aground on Robben Island. The tugs from the harbour
proceeded there in response to her call for help, but in the
meantime she floated off herself and arrived in Table Bay
soon after lunch. She was dry-docked and underwent very
extensive repairs.
Romelia Llandudno Sunset Rocks En route to scrapyards in the Far East together with the 1977/07/28
"Antipolis". Towing cable to tug "Kiyo Maru 2" broke, and
came ashore, stern first on the rock in a north westerly
gale. An article in the Argus dated 10 April 1996 relates
that the visible remains of the stern of the vessel were
finally broken up by heavy seas and sank into deeper
water on the night of 8/9 April. According to eyewitness
reports of the original foundering of the vessel, the vessel
broke in half within a week of running aground. Was not
cut up like the "Antipolis" because of its distance from the
shore, and the danger involved in landing work crews on
board. Site depth is between 12-25m. No lives lost.
Sao Jose Oudekraal Geldkis 200 slaves drowned. 1794/12/27