1841: Sovereign, this wooden sailing schooner commanded by Captain J. Ancker was wrecked at the Knysna Heads in the Western Cape after leaving the Knysna harbour. No lives were lost.
1893: Emin, this German steam-powered ship left Durban in KwaZulu-Natal for Delagoa Bay with a cargo of coal on this day and was never heard from again. All 31 people that were on board were presumed to have perished. Some scattered wreckage washed up along the coast that is believed to have come from the Emin.
1916: O’Bell – Originally called Umlazi, this ship was sold to Messrs Giancovitch of Trieste in 1913 and was renamed Concadoro. Before this, she crashed into her sister ship, the Dabulamanzi in 1889 in Port Natal (now Durban Harbour). She was made a prize during WW1 and subsequently became the property of the O’Bell SS Co of London and renamed O’Bell.
On December 28th, 1916 while on passage from Madagsacar to England she ran ashore near the mouth of the Bashee River, Cape Province and became a total wreck.
Obell was a British vessel of 1797 tons built in 1988 by J. Laing, Sutherland.
1921: Clansman, this wooden fishing cutter wrecked on the southeast point of Dassen Island on the West Coast in the Western Cape.
