SS: Meridian Traditional Geocache
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Easy cache that forms part of the Shipwreck Series. For the series methodology and more info visit SS: Shipwreck Series via the related web page link.
British brig of 144 tons, built in 1818 and commanded by Capt H. Kerr. She was wrecked at this spot on 19 May 1828 while on a voyage from Singapore and Batavia to Table Bay with a cargo of sundries, including sugar, coffee, pepper, sago, tamarinds, coconut oil, cassia, brown and white nankeens, segara, rattans, rice, sugar candy, tobacco and red fish. No lives were lost.
What was odd was that she had arrived in Simon's Bay for repairs on 5 May 1828 after being damaged in a storm and departed on 12 May for Table Bay to affect further repairs. How did she end up here in Betty's Bay? She was found in 1985; six cast iron cannon and two anchors are evident on the site.
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