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This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around the continent of Africa. The shipwreck of HMS ... WRECKSITE Worldwide database of + 65,000 wrecks with history, ...
One of the oldest shipwrecks in the Skeleton Coast region is that of the Bom Jesus, near the town of Oranjemund. It ran aground during the 1530s and is known to be one of the oldest discovered shipwrecks of the Iberian Atlantic tradition in Sub-Saharan Africa. [3]
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Based on the contents of the shipwreck, including an array of luxury items and currencies, archaeologist Dieter Noli and other scholars believe the ship was on course for western India from its home port in Lisbon, Portugal around the southern tip of Africa, a common route for similar Portuguese nau during this time that carried the same cargo. [1]
The shipwreck was close to the place where the Portuguese ship São João had gone down more than two centuries earlier on 8 June 1552. [1] The Grosvenor was a three-masted ship of 729 tons on her return voyage to England when she was wrecked, carrying a crew of 132 and 18 passengers (12 adults and 6 children), and a cargo valued at £75,000.
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Eduard Bohlen was a ship that was wrecked on the Skeleton Coast of German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) on 5 September 1909 in a thick fog. The wreck currently lies in the sand 400 m (1,300 ft) from the shoreline.
Shipwrecks of the South African Indian Ocean coast (14 P) Pages in category "Shipwrecks of South Africa" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.