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largely covered by sand. When wrecked, the vessel was
on her maiden/delivery voyage. Was built by the
Grangemouth Dockyard Co. After World War I much of the
plating of the vessel was removed under contract, and
subsequently used by the SAR & H as a barricade on Fish
Hoek beach to stop the sand being blown onto the road
and railway lines.
Katsu Maru 25 Hout Bay Outside Harbour / Beached after a collision. Then sunk at given position. 1978/08/07
mouth of bay Lies on her starboard side on sand with a maximum depth
of about 30m.
Ker-Yar-Vor Duiker Point / Off On 31 December 1978 the vessel was berthed along the 1979/08/10
Maori Bay North Quay at Hout Bay harbour, awaiting refuelling by the
Mobil Oil Company. Whilst connecting the diesel fuel lines
to the vessel, the Mobil truck driver lit a cigarette in the
vicinity of a gas installation aboard the vessel. This set off
a massive dry explosion which killed the ship's engineers
and the truck driver. The force of the blast was such that
parts of the ship's superstructure were blown hundreds of
metres seawards. The vessel, which had been scheduled
to sail the following day for the south coast deep sea
lobster grounds off Port Elizabeth, was declared a total
constructive loss by her insurers and condemned by the
Department of Transport's marine surveyors. Over the
course of the following months she was stripped of
anything of use of value, and then during August 1979
was towed around the Sentinel and scuttled to form an
artificial reef. She ended up lying atop the Jo May. The
vessel was built in 1963 in the Belgian yards of Belliard
Murdoch SA in Ostend. She had a registered gross
tonnage of 291.83 tons, and was 42.25 metres long.
Explosion. Towed to Cape Town where she was scuttled
on 10-08-1979 in 22 metres of water. 22m long.
Koumoundouros Cape Cape Peninsula Sunk by U-68. 1942/10/08
Peninsula (off)