May 5, 2004
Exploring slaver shipwrecks off South Africa
The Dutch slave ship Meermin ran aground off the southern Cape coast 236 years ago after an on-board rebellion was almost victorious - now researchers are poised to find her secrets.Read all about it in the South African Sunday Times."It is the beginning of a larger project to find different slave wrecks around the South African coastline," said Meermin project manager Jaco Boshoff, a maritime archaeologist attached to Iziko Museums.
The ship's last moments are a researcher's dream: bottled messages were surreptitiously slipped into the sea and the rebellion of 140 slaves-to-be quelled before the Meermin ran aground.
Posted by David on May 5, 2004 2:38 PM
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We are trying to get a list of wrecked vessels, can you help?
Thanks
Posted by: Hewie on May 22, 2004 1:53 PM
I am looking for information on the shipwrecks around Mazeppa Bay on the Wildcoast eg. Clan Lindsay, Good Girl
Posted by: Debbie Love on March 23, 2006 10:46 PM
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