1878: Wheatlandside, this fully-rigged British wooden ship of 1 136 tons was wrecked in a south-easterly gale on North End Beach in Port Elizabeth/Gqeberha in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape. On the 16th of December it struck a reef whilst entering the harbour, which caused a hole in its bottom. On this day, a strong-south-easterly gale (south-westerly in some reports) caused its cables to part, and it wrecked on the beach. Wheatlanside was built in Quebec in 1872 and commanded by Captain RH Dixon and was on a voyage from London with a cargo of sleepers and iron rails.
1881: Rosalie, this sailing brig wrecked on the West Beach near Salt Vlei Point in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape. No lives were lost. There is however a single mentioning of a Rosalie being active on the 29th of April 1881, so this may have just been a grounding event and more research will be required to determine whether it wrecked on this day.
1898: Franze, this steel sailing barque was caught out in a cyclone, which heeled the vessel over until it had taken on enough water, and it foundered south of Cape Padrone in the Eastern Cape. Of the crew of 14, three refused to take to the boats and presumably drowned when the barque foundered.
