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Fig. 4.9: Wrecked naval cutter washed ashore opposite Kimberley Road, St. James.
(Lantern, 1967.)
About 8.30 am. on 17 December 1965 a 32-foot cutter of a design tested and tried, left Simon’s
Town under sail on a training cruise; two hours later she was becalmed in Fish Hoek Bay; by
noon she was battered and dismasted on the rocks north of Kalk Bay, all but four of her
complement of 11 having drowned, notwithstanding the efforts of rescuers, one of whom lost his
life.
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