In the pre-dawn hours of 27 July 1909, the brand-new triple deck passenger and cargo steamship, the SS Waratah, drew level with the SS...

The Quanza was a four-masted steamship of 942 tons which went ashore at East London on Sunday, 26 May 1872 at 05h00. She struck the rocks...

Built in Newcastle in 1926, with a mass of close to 12,000 tons, the Stuart Star was a twin-screw steamer of the Blue Star line on voyage...

The Lady Kennaway was a three masted, square rigged barque of 584 tons which had been built of teak by Kid and Company in Calcutta in...

The K. G. Meldahl, on charter to British War Transport, departed New York on 20 Sept 1942 for Bombay, via Port of Spain and Cape Town,...

On 26 October 1942, shortly before 7pm, the steam-powered American cargo vessel, the SS Anne Hutchinson, was torpedoed by a German...

The Buffalo City coastline has proven the final resting place of a large number of ill-fated vessels - including many sunk by German...

The Valdivia was a steamer of 4,952 tons built in Port Glasgow in 1906. She sank off the Esplanade at East London on 2 October 1908. She...

The 5,000-ton Britishcollier, the King Cadwallon, collided with rocks off the Esplanade on the 11th September 1929. The coal carrier -...

The S.S. Orient was a Russian vessel which called in at East London on 29 July 1907, sailing from South Australia with a crew of 21 and...

The treacherous East London coast claimed one of its most high-profile victims on Tuesday, 13 August 1974 when the SA Oranjeland ran...

The S.S. Orient was a Russian vessel which called in at East London on 29 July 1907, sailing from South Australia with a crew of 21 and...