The 6th of January WAS a red-letter day as up until 2024, South Africa had NO recorded shipwrecks occurring on 6 January in any year of our past. 2024: FV Elke M - The grounding incident of FV Elke M, a Port Elizabeth registered 376-ton (gross) fishing trawler, measuring 33 meters in length and eight (8) meters wide, with a deadweight tonnage of some 194 tons, occurred on a late Saturday evening on 06 January 2024, on a rocky coastal area of the Cape coast in the Eastern Cape some two … [Read more...] about 6 January Shipwreck List



