| Abstract: | Little is known about the earliest shipwrecks on the South African coasts. The first of which there is any record is of an unnamed Portuguese ship which went aground in 1504 or 1505. There is good evidence, however, that ships were wrecked on the southern coasts of Africa before the Europeans rounded the Cape. The last of the wrecks to lead to a long march was that of the American ship 'Hercules' from India in 1796. This study describes the known shipwrecks on the southeast coast of Africa before AD 1800. |
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