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2016

Hondeklip Aristea

Hondeklip - Aristea

The Aristea was a fishing trawler for I&J until she was called into duty in WWII as a minesweeper. The Aristea met her unfortunate end on the rocks outside Hondeklipbaai after her captain drunkenly neglected his duties. The Aristea was built in 1934 in Scotland and she ran aground on 4 July 1945 just south of Hondeklipbaai. The story goes that the captain of the ship was too tipsy to take command of the ship in the rough waters off the coast of Hondeklipbaai. On that dark and stormy night, a junior deckhand swam ashore with a rope and anchor to save his fellow sailors. From a crew of 24, only one person died in the shipwreck.

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