page_title: Wolraad Woltemade
hierarchical_section_title: Wolraad Woltemade
caption_attribution_description: English: Wolraad Woltemade saves sailors
context_page_description: Wolraad Woltemade was a Cape Dutch dairy farmer, who died while rescuing sailors from the wreck of the ship De Jonge Thomas in Table Bay on 1 June 1773. The story was reported by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg who was in South Africa as a surgeon for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie at the time.
context_section_description: Wolraad Woltemade (c.1708 – 1 June 1773) was a Cape Dutch dairy farmer, who died while rescuing sailors from the wreck of the ship De Jonge Thomas in Table Bay on 1 June 1773.  The story was reported by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg  who was in South Africa as a surgeon for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (known in English as the Dutch East India Company) at the time.
caption: 18th century drawing depicting Wolraad Woltemade's rescue of 14 sailors
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