Tales of shipwrecks at the Cape of Storms
By: by John Gribble & Gabriel Athiros.
Contributors: Athiros, Gabriel.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Historical Media; Historical Media cc, Tokai
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tokai [South Africa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780620421089
Subjects: Shipwrecks -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope; Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape) -- Description and travel
Description: In less than five hundred years more than two thousand ships have been consigned to a watery grave on the South African coast and the numbers of souls lost untallied.  Table Bay itself is littered with about four hundred wrecks, seventy of which are buried under the reclaimed land of Cape Town's foreshore. Tales of shipwrecks at the Cape of Storms records the intriguing stories of a few of these wrecks.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152) and index.