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The Bom Jesus was a Portuguese nau and Indiaman that set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on Friday, March 7, 1533.Its fate was unknown until 2008, when its remains were discovered during diamond mining operations on the coast of Namibia, near Oranjemund.
A Dutch East Indiaman carrying copper duits, silver bars, and gold ducats, which hit a reef twenty-one kilometres (13 mi) from the eastern coast of Africa and 190 kilometres (120 mi) south of the Portuguese settlement of Mozambique. The wreck was discovered in 1986.
Haib, at the border with South Africa, is a classic porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum deposit featuring oxide and sulphide copper with a predominance of chalcopyrite in the sulphide ores. Salt is recovered on a large scale from coastal solar evaporation pans in the Swakopmund and Walvis Bay areas, and at Cape Cross .
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] Past human occupation by Strandlopers is shown by shell middens of white mussels found along parts of the Skeleton Coast. In 1942 the British refrigerated cargo liner Dunedin Star ran aground.
Gold coins from the 1715 Fleet Shipwrecks in Florida. Evidence emerged in June linking Eric Schmitt, a member of the Schmitt family, to the illegal sale of the stolen coins in 2023 and 2024, FWC said.
Shipwrecks of South Africa (2 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Shipwrecks of Africa" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
The ‘Holy Grail of shipwrecks’ is set to be recovered from the bottom of the ocean - along with its treasures which are believed to be worth up to $20bn in today’s money.
Researchers looked at archival materials and found 176 shipwrecks near the Bahamas between 1526 and 1976. Most shipwrecks were due to reefs and storms, the researchers found.