The Graham’s Town Journal from September 15th, 1842, featured a scathing article about the recent shipwreck in Table Bay, especially the loss of the Waterloo. “Yet we should lose no time in having our Life Boat and other Humane Apparatus in readiness, and our Boatmen, now experienced Salvors, should hold themselves prepared for sudden calls. If in the finest weather a vessel of the Waterloo class touch the sand or mud, to say nothing of rocks, her doom is sealed; and unluckily the sides of our Bay seem to have a sort of elective attraction on everything rotten.”

Ship Name: Waterloo

Year Built: 1815

Tonnage 414

Ship Type: East Indiaman 

Nationality: British 

Year Wrecked: 1842

Location Wrecked: Table Bay, South Africa  

Reason for Wreck: Ran Aground in Storm 

Lives Lost: Over 200 

Ship Name: Abercrombie Robinson 

Year Built: 1825

Tonnage: 1415

Ship Type: East Indiaman 

Nationality: British 

Year Wrecked: 1842

Location Wrecked: Table Bay, South Africa 

Reason for Wreck: Ran Aground in Storm 

Lives Lost: None 

Sources: 

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12411445

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