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"The Cape of storms : the discovery that changed the world -- A fort in the dunes : Nieuw Haerlem - 1647 -- A nightmare voyage: Gouden Buys - 1693 -- Blame it on the Dutchman: Geldkis & Het Huis te Crayenstein -- Saldanha Bay coasters: Nagel - 1709 -- A disastrous Jutten Island short-cut : Merestein - 1702 -- A wreck, a man and his horse: De Jonge Thomas and Wolraad Woltemade -- 'Shooting a fish in a barrel': Middelburg - 1781 -- Making matchwood of a wooden wall: HMS Sceptre - 1799 -- Wrecked on the 'Britannia Blinder': Britannia - 1826 -- Casting away the Lady: Juliana - 1839 -- In the dark of the night: Prince Rupert - 1841 -- Of bottoms sound and rotten: the Abercrombie Robinson & Waterloo - 1842 -- The great Cape gale of 1865: RMS Athens -- A lost son at Hondeklip Bay: Jonquille - 1866 -- Lost at Papendorp in the great gale of 1878: Caledonian -- The grave in the dunes: British Peer - 1896 -- A rude awakening: SS Thermopylae - 1899 -- The ship that refused to die: the saga of the Brutus - 1902 -- A Royal Navy loss during the Boer war: HMS Sybille - 1901 -- The first Shaw Savill wreck at the Cape: SS Maori -1909 -- A load of Bull: SS Lisboa - 1910 -- Third time - not so lucky: SS Aotea - 1911 -- A pub with no beer: S.A. Seafarer - 1966.