1806: Bato, this 74-gun 800 ton Dutch ship of the line was set on fire and scuttled on Long Beach in Simons Town in False Bay in the Western Cape on 8 January 1806 – te same day that the Battle of Blaauwberg began. On the 27th of February 1804, it was deemed unseaworthy, and its use was to be a floating battery in defence of Simons Town for the next two years. After the Dutch lost the Battle of Blaauwberg to the British, and a new occupation became inevitable, they were ordered to burn it down. Today very little of the wreck remains, but because it is a very shallow wreck in a sheltered bay, it has seen been the subject of many maritime archaeological projects. Timber and conglomerated iron and kelp patches make this wreck visible on satellite images too. The canon from HMMS Bato stand outside the Simons Toan Post Office.
1906: Spray, this wooden steam-powered 5 ton fishing ketch wrecked 0,8nm North of Bird Island lighthouse on North Patch Reef at Bird Island in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape. Two lives were lost as a result of the wrecking.
