1819: Adolphus, this wooden sailing brig wrecked as a result of incorrect signaling from the shore, whilst crossing the bar at the Knysna Heads in the Western Cape.
1835: Circe, this wooden sailing vessel left Algoa Bay for Port Natal on this day, never to be seen or heard from again.
1874: Florie, this 373 ton wooden sailing barque wrecked in a south-westerly gale near the Blind River in East London in the Eastern Cape with the loss of one life. Florie was built in 1862 by Parkes, Chester. One sailor was washed overboard and drowned.
1885: Sea Nymph/Seenymphe, this German sailing schooner 0f 191 tons, commanded by Captain Loser, was wrecked on the outer bar in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal – a little North of Vetchies Pier. After having run aground two weeks earlier, an easterly gale sprung up and the vessel was abandoned. By dawn, the vessel had reportedly been smashed to pieces. Seenymphe was on a voyage from Mozambique with a cargo of salt and corn. No lives were lost.
1932: Evylyn, this steam powered fishing vessel was scuttled off the coast of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.
1946: During salvage of the City of Lincoln, which had run aground and wrecked on the 9th of November, west of Quoin Point in the Western Cape, the two steam-driven salvage vessels, the Fynd and Swona, had lines tangle in both vessel’s propellers and they wrecked. The City of Lincoln was refloated and scuttled in deeper waters in 1950, with the remains of the Fynd reportedly still visible at low tide as well as some of the remaining cargo of the City of Lincoln, such as the engine blocks of vehicles it was transporting.
1978: Good Hope, this steam-powered South African loch class frigate was scuttled in Smitswinkel Bay in False Bay in the Western Cape. The site lies at about 30m in depth and makes for a beautiful dive along with the other wrecks that were scuttled to form artificial reefs in Smitswinkel Bay.
