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Title: Wreck of Windsor Castle
Subject: Shipwrecks -- South Africa -- Cape Town., Nautical charts -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Marine chart showing where the Windsor Castle, a 2,672 ton steamer, was wrecked off Dassen Island on 19 October 1876. This chart was specially prepared for the Standard and Mail newspaper. In addition to the site of the wreck, the map shows Camps Bay, Green Point, Mouille Point, the Cape Town docks, Observatory, the Salt River and Riet Vlei, Whale Rock, Robben Island, Blaauwberg and Blaauwberg River, Melkbosch Point, Seal Cove, Matroos Bay and Point, Buffels River, Bok River, Bok Point, Jacob's Cove, Gans Kraal Farm, Black Rock, Moeder River, Darling, Rondeberg, Ijzer Fontein Point, Rondeberg Breaker, and Dassen Island with Roaring Sister, South Rock, South West Breakers, West Ledge, The Triangles, Boom Point and Waterloo Bay., Depths shown by soundings., Projection not given. Map shows a variation of 29°50' between magnetic north and true north., Saul Solomon & Co.
Identifier: islandora:19685

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