1969: Tracyjon, this motor-powered fishing trawler foundered at sea, about 160 km north of Cape Town, somewhere along the West Coast, in the Western Cape with all eight that were on board being lost.
1996: Cordigliera, this motor-powered cargo vessel foundered, with the loss of life of all 29 that were on board, near Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape. Only three bodies were recovered. The wreck caused major oil pollution on the nearby beaches at lies at a depth of 90m. Cordigliera was launched as Badagry Palm from the North Sands Yard of J.L.Thompson in Sunderland, yard number 741. It was the last British ship to be fitted with a Doxford engine, a 760J4. Thompsons yard had always been family owned until it became part of the Doxford and Sunderland shipbuilding and Engineering company, then Sunderland Shipbuilders following nationalisation after the Court Line collapse, then part of British shipbuilders and would end its days as part of Northeast Shipbuilders Ltd (NESL) as part of British Shipbuilders. Robert Thompson, one of the shipbuilding family left the firm to start his own yard a mile upriver from North Sands at Southwick.
1997: Aster, this Mauritian motor-powered refrigerated cargo vessel wrecked in Mapazana Bay just south of Shark’s Point in Mpande in the Eastern Cape. It became stranded on the rocks with severe damage to the hull. It was later blown up to assist with breaking up the vessel.
