Shipwrecks along the Atlantic Seaboard

Shipwrecks along Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard from Mouille Point to Hout Bay

The Atlantic Seaboard is home to a remarkable collection of shipwrecks, many of them scattered along the rugged coastline between Mouille Point and Hout Bay. This list includes shipwrecks around Mouille Point, Green Point, Sea Point, Bantry Bay, Clifton,

Shipwrecks near Green Point & Mouille Point

    • Mauritius Eylant (1644) –  wrecked near Mouille Point
    • Götheborg (1796) –  wrecked  at Green Point
    • Fame (1806) – Damaged near Green Point / broken up on Robben Island
    • Feniscowles (1810) – wrecked at Green Point
    • Apollo (1823) –  wrecked near the Mouille Point Battery
    • Mulgrave Castle (1825) –  wrecked near Green Point Lighthouse
    • Singapore (1830) –  wrecked near Mouille Point Lighthouse
    • Royal William (1837) –  wrecked near Mouille Point
    • Juliana (1839) – wrecked near Mouille Point Battery
    • Trafalgar (1839) –  wrecked at Rocklands Bay, Sea Point
    • Catharine Jamieson (1840) – wrecked near Mouille Point
    • Frances (1840) –  wrecked at Mouille Point
    • Palmer (1840) – wrecked near Mouille Point
    • Paragon (1840) –  wrecked at Green Point
    • Udny Castle (1840) –  wrecked (grounded), Green Point
    • Prince Rupert (1841) –  wrecked, Mouille Point
    • Helen (1842) – wrecked, Mouille Point
    • Chieftain (1848) –  wrecked near Mouille Point Lighthouse
    • Enchantress (1849) –  wrecked near Green Point
    • Dido (1853) –  wrecked at Mouille Point
    • Zaltbommel (1856) – wrecked at Mouille Point
    • Ellen Rawson (1857) –  wrecked (grounded), Mouille Point
    • Miner (1857) –  wrecked at Mouille Point
    • Arabia (1858) –  wrecked near Green Point
    • Mariner (1860) –  wrecked near Green Point Lighthouse
    • Valleyfield (1862) –  wrecked near Green Point Lighthouse
    • Eliza (1863) – wrecked near Mouille Point
    • Primauguet (1865) – wrecked near Green Point
    • RMS Athens (1865) –  wrecked  when driven onto rocks by a storm at Mouille Point
    • Piccadilly (1877) –  wrecked at Camps Bay
    • Paralos (1880) –  wrecked at Camps Bay
    • Mountain Ash (1881) –  wrecked at Mouille Point
    • Reno (1883) –  wrecked near Mouille Point
    • Blythswood (1890) –  wrecked near Green Point / Mouille Point
    • Thermopylae (1899) – wrecked near Green Point Lighthouse
    • Allegiance (1900) – sank, wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean 
    • Hiddeskel (1902) –  wrecked near Green Point
    • Aotea (1911) –  wrecked near Green Point
    • SS George M. Livanos (1947) –  wrecked near Green Point Lighthouse
    • Bulby (1960) – wrecked at Green Point Lighthouse (Table Bay side)
    • Blomvlei (1966) – Scuttled (intentionally sunk north of Green Point Lighthouse)
    • Irene (1970) –  wrecked near Mouille Point
    • Sea Service (1988) –  wrecked at Mouille Point
    • Disa ( date unclear) – wrecked at Green Point Lighthouse (Table Bay side) 

Shipwrecks at Sea Point & Camps Bay 

    • Schuilenberg (1756) –  wrecked, Camps Bay
    • São José Paquete Africa (1794) – Accidentally driven onto rocks, Clifton / Camps Bay 
    • Fame (1822) –  wrecked, near Graaff’s Pool, Sea Point
    • Hopefield Packet (1869) – Accidentally wrecked at Camps Bay
    • Basuto Coast (1954) – wrecked at the Sea Point Pavilion
    • Bluff (1965) –  wrecked at Camps Bay 

    Shipwrecks near Noordhoek and Kommetjiehttps://www.colourdots.co.za/kommetjie/ 

    • L’Aigle (1834) –  wrecked at Slangkop Beach, Kommetjie
    • Brunswick (1795) –  wrecked at Long Beach, Noordhoek
    • San Antonio (1842) –  wrecked at Chapman’s Bay
    • Montagu (1847) –  wrecked at Kommetjie
    • Parama (1862) – wrecked at Long Beach, Noordhoek
    • Kakapo (1900) –  wrecked when it steamed at full speed onto the beach in thick fog)
    • Duineveld (1956) –  wrecked near Chapman’s Peak
    • Florence Brierley (1958) – scuttled near Slangkop Lighthouse)
    • Oceana Vlei (1972) – wrecked  near Slangkop Lighthouse
    • Adore (1977) –  wrecked near Kommetjie
    • Herlille (1978) –wrecked  South-west of Slangkop Lighthouse
    • Gulliver (1986) –  wrecked near Slangkop Lighthouse, Kommetjie
    • Conquest (1988) – Accidentally grounded near Slangkop Lighthouse, Kommetjie
    • SAS Tafelberg (1998) Scuttled as an artificial reef/dive site south-west of the Cape Peninsula

    Shipwrecks near Llandudno & Hout Bay

    • Het Huis te Kraaiestein (1688) wrecked on rocks near Oudekraal
    • Oakburn (1906): struck the rocks in a thick fog at Duiker Point
    • Maori (1909) –  wrecked (struck rocks in thick fog), Llandudno
    • Magnet (1916) –  wrecked at Hout Bay
    • Swazi Coast (1954) –  wrecked at Hout Bay
    • Gussy (1968) –  wrecked at Hout Bay
    • Antipolis (1977) –  wrecked (grounded while under tow) near Llandudno
    • Katsu Maru No. 25 (1978) – sank following a collision in Hout Bay
    • Strathmore (1880) –  wrecked at Hout Bay
    • Crystal Wave (1894) –  wrecked at Hout Bay
    • Omelia (1977) wrecked near Llandudno
    • Harvest Capella (1986): Oude Schip headland, Llandudno)
    • SAS Gelderland (1988) – scuttled during navy demolition trials northwest of Duiker Point
    • Bluefin (1990) –  wrecked at Hout Bay
    • BOS 400 (1994) –  wrecked (grounded during a storm while under tow), Duiker Point / Hout Bay
    • Aster (1997) – Scuttled (intentionally sunk as an artificial reef/dive site south of Hout Bay harbour)
    • Imp (2001) –  wrecked at Hout Bay
    • Millie (2002) –  wrecked at Hout Bay
    • John Barberie (2009) –  wrecked at Hout Bay

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