1863: Evelyn, this wooden sailing schooner wrecked in a north-westerly wind on Sunbeam Rock at Danger Point in the Western Cape. Four lives were lost because of the wrecking.
1898: Resolute, this steam-powered coaster wrecked near Paternoster on the west coast in the Western Cape. All ten that were on board drowned.
1903: The Norwegian wooden hulled 534 ton barque Sappho, on a voyage from Biloxi to Port Natal, was abandoned and eventually sank SW of Cape Town. Sappho was bulit by Grimstad Mek. Verksted, Ålesund, owned by Olsen Jens, Grimstad and under the command of Captain Otto Steen.
1942: City of Hankow, this British steam-powered cargo vessel of 7 360 tons built in 1915 by W. Gray & Co, West Hartlepool and owned by the Ellerman line was ship wrecked at Long Point in Danger Bay near Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape in dense fog. She was carrying a cargo of 8 000 tons of military equipment, most of which was salvaged at the time. She has been extensively worked on for her non-ferrous fittings. The navy put a ban on diving in her as a result of the great amount of ammunition on board.
