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She formed part of a minesweeper flotilla (with HMSAS Bluff, HMSAS Babiana, HMSAS Africana, HMSAS Natalia, HMSAS Aristea and HMSAS Crassula under command of Lt.Cdr. F.J. Dean) to clear German mines off Cape Agulhas on 13–15 May 1940, making them the first South African Navy vessels to participate in operations in WW2.
The lighthouse at Cape Agulhas has guided many ships around the cape over the years. The sea off Cape Agulhas is notorious for winter storms and mammoth rogue waves, which can range up to 30 metres (100 ft) high and can sink even large ships. [10] Over the past few hundred years it has been believed that around 150 ships have sunk around ...
S. A. Agulhas participated in a multinational rescue of Magdalena Oldendorff in 2002. [9] The ice-strengthened cargo ship had become stuck in the ice during severe weather conditions while en route from a Russian Antarctic base to Cape Town. S. A. Agulhas and the Argentine icebreaker Almirante Irízar were dispatched to
An oil tanker that grounded near Cape Agulhas, causing an oil spill. The ship was later refloated, towed out to sea, and re-sunk to avoid further contamination of the coastline. Waterloo United Kingdom: 28 August 1842
The text on the superstructure shows that S. A. Agulhas II is dedicated to the South African singer Miriam Makeba.. In November 2009 the South African Department of Water and Environmental Affairs signed a 116 million euro (R 1.3 billion) contract with STX Finland for the construction of a new polar research and supply vessel that would replace the ageing S. A. Agulhas, which was scheduled to ...
From Portuguese Cabo das Agulhas, for "Cape of Needles"; Southernmost point of Africa and the official dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Roughly 29 minutes of latitude farther south than the more commonly cited Cape of Good Hope .
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The tow cable subsequently broke, and Wafra grounded on a reef near Cape Agulhas at 5:30 pm on 28 February. All six of the port cargo tanks, as well as two of the six center tanks, were ruptured, resulting in approximately 26,000 tonnes of oil leaking at the grounding site, of which 6,000 tonnes washed up at Cape Agulhas. [ 11 ]