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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
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 ...
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 ...
Map of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa. The Cape of Good Hope is at the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula, about 2.3 kilometers (1.4 mi) west and a little south of Cape Point on the south-east corner. Cape Town is about 50 kilometers to the north of the Cape, in Table Bay at the north end of the peninsula.
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
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. [27]
In October 1965, Bainbridge again rounded Cape Agulhas, en route to the Western Pacific for the first of eleven Seventh Fleet cruises. Operating for much of this deployment off strife-torn Vietnam, she screened aircraft carriers, served as a radar-picket ship, and performed search and rescue missions.
Consequently, instead of being 100 miles (160 km) west of the Cape of Good Hope as presumed, the ship was closing on the reef at Waenhuiskrans near Cape Agulhas. The anchors were unable to hold the heavy ship in the storm, so on 30 May near 4 pm, Lieutenant Brice advised Captain Simpson to ground the ship to save the lives of those aboard. [6]