25 December

1686: Bonaventura, this 20 ton British wooden sailing ketch wrecked in St Lucia Bay in St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal. After mistaking which bay they were in as well as the timing of the tides, the ketch ran aground. The crew abandoned it until high tide would refloat it, and it did, but it happened too quickly, and it floated up the river where it wrecked. Of the ten that were on board, one drowned. They eventually made it to modern day Durban, which was not a formal settlement yet. Here they met … [Read more...] about 25 December Shipwreck List