ANCIENT SHIP FOUND
DISCOVERY BY DREDGERS. Dutch dredgers deepening the new harbour at Cape Town have discovered the wreckage of a ship believed to be centuries old. A diver was sent down and came up with the report that the ship was buried deep in the sand. As a result it will be some time before the wreck is uncovered and an examination made. There are hopes, states the British United Press, that the ship might contain a rich cargo, but the records of the Cape do not tell of any bullion ships being sunk in the bay. Dredging experts believe the ship may have been sunk during an engagement some time during the wars of the 17th and 18th centuries. There are records of ships engaging the forts at that time. “There is a ship down there all right,” the diver said, when he came to the surface. “I clambered among her timbers. I came upon three cannon lying among them. “The ship must be a big one, for her timbers are about a foot square. It was so dark I could not see six inches, and had to rely on touch all the time.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 2
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