Sometimes a 4x4 is just not sufficient. Image via Skeleton Coast Safaris. Close to Henties Bay there are several visible shipwrecks, one of which is that of the Suiderkus, a relatively modern fishing trawler. After a few months most of the ship had disintegrated but a large portion of the hull still survives to this day.
Water flowing through the wreckage of the Suiderkus. Photo by Charlie Summers. The hull is now perched on the beach and is currently a home for a group of cormorants. Because of its peculiar location and decaying frame it is a popular destination for photographers visiting the area.
Photo by Olwen Evans. The Skeleton Coast Camp offers tours of the nearby wrecks, the Suiderkus included, and if you choose to stay at that lodge then they will happily take you on a tour. Anglers who are fishing at the nearby Terrace Bay drive past the wreck on their way to the fishing grounds.
There is some world-class fishing on offer near Terrace Bay. Image via Cardboard Box Travel Shop. As mentioned above, there are literally thousands of wrecks dotted along the coast of Namibia. The three chosen for this article have been picked because they are still visible and are relatively easy to access.
As the Skeleton Coast National Park continues to become more accessible to more and more people other wrecks will be easier to visits. For now, however, you can beat the crowds and get exploring in one of the world's strangest and most haunting landscapes. She weighed tons and was built by Wigham Richardson at Newcastle.
She carried soldiers, horses, war material, mail and general cargo. The gunboat Vineta, at that time on a visit at Swakopmund, assisted with the salvage operations. No lives were lost. The wreck was visible until , when she disappeared under the water during a heavy storm. Today a beacon, the so-called Gertrud beacon, marks the spot where she has sunk.
On 5 September the sea was covered in thick fog. The 95 meter ship lost its way and ran aground at Conception Bay. The wreck of the Eduard Bohlen is one of the most photographed shipwrecks in Namibia. It is m inland and partially buried under the desert sand. The Otavi was a steamer with a cargo of Guano. It ran aground in Spencer Bay, Namibia during The Dunedin Star was a British refrigerated cargo passenger liner of 13 tons, designed to ship frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand to the United Kingdom.
During WW11 it was used in the war effort. When it stranded on 29 November , 40 km south of the Kunene River mouth she had passengers and crew members on board. They managed to take 42 people to the shore while the rest were rescued from the ship by crew from the Norwegian cargo ship Temeraire. Various rescue attempts were undertaken. A Lockheed Ventura was sent from the Cape of Good Hope to land with supplies and water for the survivors who had made it to shore.
It landed, but got stuck in loose sand when trying to take off. A second bomber was sent to replenish supplies. As it did not land, merely dropped its supplies, it had no problems at the site of the wreck but it crashed into the ocean on the way back.
The three crewmen made it to shore and began their long walk south. Facebook Twitter Email. It's been a legend for centuries. The journey to uncover a lost ship legend in the California desert. There are documented 'sightings. It's 'not uncommon' for shipwrecks to last years.
Read the Lost Ship of the Desert series. Lost ship of the desert: Chasing a legend buried deep in the sands of California and Baja Two years ago, a mysterious phone call sent me searching for a lost ship in the desert.
One man wanted a permit to dig. Most scholars are skeptical. That scenario rests on an unlikely coincidence of events, but the topography of the area, the potential for monumental flooding, the early explorations by Spanish vessels and a tragedy in the 20th century have all given some currency to the possibility of a shipwreck in the desert.
The Gulf of California and the Salton Sea were once connected, before the Colorado River delta emerged to separate them. The basin, at more than feet below sea level, would serve as a ready receptacle for flood waters. Spanish vessels sailed into the delta area in the 16th century, seeking treasures and ocean passages. An exceptionally large tidal bore moved up the delta stream bed in , capsizing a steamship and killing 86 of passengers.
It would seem most likely that the ship, if it exists, would be a Spanish vessel, but some have speculated that it might be a craft from the navy of King Solomon, or the 10 lost tribes of Israel, or a warring people from the Indian Ocean, or a band of pirates. After three months, he gave up the search. A century and a half later, according to Fierro Blanco, a mule driver named Tiburcio Manquerna, who accompanied the famous Juan Baptista de Anza in his search of a land route from Sonora to Alta California, claimed that, "I was sent to the right of the course, seeking a road to the ocean.
Traveling by night because of the heat, I stumbled upon an ancient ship and in its hold were so many pearls as is beyond imagination.
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