1796: Ann & Eliza - This British East Indiaman, built in 1789, was travelling from Bengal back to England with a cargo of arrack (alcohol) and rice. All the databases place the wreck between Bushmans River Mouth and Sundays River Mouth (Turner 1988; Morris 2005; Levine 1989; Theal 1897). A 2020 underwater archaeological impact assessment for the proposed marine servitudes for the Coega SEZ places the wreck site as being on the North Shore of Algoa Bay. The Cape Archives (CD1/45) state that … [Read more...] about 22 January Shipwreck List


