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While little is known about the history of the Bom Jesus itself, it is speculated that the ship was part of a class of naval vessels that were larger, more efficient, and more durable than previous Portuguese and Spanish vessels in order to facilitate the longer-distance expeditions carried out by Portuguese fleets during this time. [1]
One of many rusting ship hulls along the Skeleton Coast (Dunedin Star) 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.
The Nossa Senhora dos Mártires was a cargo ship that wrecked in 1606 at the mouth of the River Tagus, near Lisbon, Portugal, and subsequently excavated between 1996 and 2001. The ship had been seeking safer anchorage in the Tagus during strong winds, but she struck a submerged rock and went down close to shore with no loss of life.
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates Bom Jesus Portugal: A Portuguese nau that set sail from Lisbon in 1533. It was discovered in 2008 on the coast near Oranjemund. [9] Dunedin Star United Kingdom: 29 November 1942 A refrigerator ship that ran aground on the Skeleton Coast, 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of the Kunene River. [10
Backhouse (1799 ship) SS Barnsley (1876) Bayard (ship) Bellona (1799 ship) MS Berge Vanga; HMS Berwick (1775) SS Blanche (1863) Blenden Hall; Bluebelle (ship) SS Bogstad; Bom Jesus (ship) USS Brinkley Bass; Britannia (1772 EIC ship) French ship Bucentaure (1803) SS Bury Hill
The ship broke up and 18,000 fish were lost, to the value of £200 "... by his (the pilot) craft, fault, ignorance, rashness and negligence caused the ship to strike the sands and rocks of the sea". [11] 17 April — Unnamed ship (Habsburg Netherlands): The unknown sloop-of-war may have been one of the ships sunk during the Battle of Flushing. [76]
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