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                                               Ship Name                 Area                  Place                                              Notes                                     Date of Wreck
                                          Adolph Fanny             Cape of             Cape of Good               Vessel put in for repairs and caulking, but was abandoned                     1842/03/11
                                                                   Good Hope           Hope                       and condemned to be broken up.


                                          Albatross                Olifantsbos         Albatross Rock             Sank within 12 minutes. The crew landed in Hout Bay. No                       1863/04/10
                                                                                                                  lives lost. Captain's name may be Johnson .
                                                                                                                  Albatross Rock got its name from this wreck.

                                          Albatross                Hout Bay                                       Driven ashore and grounded in a south-easterly gale.                          1844/08/25
                                                                                                                  Afterwards repaired and got off.

                                                                                                                  Appears to be the same vessel that grounded and was
                                                                                                                  refloated two years earlier in Table Bay. Both cutters
                                                                                                                  named Albatross and owned by T Ryan.


                                          Alcyone                                                                 Sank after striking two mines laid by the Doggerbank                          1942/03/16

                                          Ann Bridson              Cape Point          Judas Peak                 Grounded and then abandoned off the coast. According to                       1859/11/12
                                                                                       (below)                    Marsh. The Cape Argus of 12/11/1859 reports the SS
                                                                                                                  Kadie as having sighted a ship on the rocks near Cape
                                                                                                                  Point which it believed to be the Annie Bridston (sic),
                                                                                                                  "lately abandoned".
                                          Anne                     Olifantsbos         Point (near)               Lost in thick fog                                                             1859/06/03

                                          Antipolis                Oudekraal           Oudekraal                  In tow by the Japanese tug, Kiyo Maru No. 2, with the                         1977/07/29
                                                                                                                  Romelia from Greece to scrapyards in the Far East. On 28
                                                                                                                  July 1997 a 50 knot north-westerly gale was blowing, and
                                                                                                                  the Cape Town Port Captain advised that they should not
                                                                                                                  enter Table Bay. The tug intended anchoring between
                                                                                                                  Robben Island and the mainland, but the towing cables of
                                                                                                                  both vessels parted. She drifted and later ran aground.
                                                                                                                  Salvaged for scrap metal. Tonnage may have been 24119
                                                                                                                  tons. Depth between 10-12m.
                                          Asia                     Cape of                                        Reference in Taylor's book on the Ellerman Line mentions                      1862/06/01
                                                                   Good Hope                                      that this vessel foundered off the Cape of Good Hope in
                                                                                                                  June 1862. Built by McMillan of Dumbarton
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