The Madagascar was a ship of the Rennie line[2] that was lost in 1858 after it hit a reef near the mouth of the Birha River, south of East London, in South Africa, around midnight on 3 December. Attempts to keep the ship afloat failed and it was run aground on the 4th and broke up. There were no deaths.[1][3]
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References
edit- ^ a b "Rennie's Steamer Service: Natal and Cape Colonies", R. N. Porter, The South African Philatelist, Vol. 90, No. 6 (December 2014), Whole No. 927, pp. 178-182.
- ^ Madagascar. Scottish Built Ships. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ^ "Loss of the Steamer Madagascar", The Hobart Town Daily Mercury, 3 February 1859, p. 2. Retrieved from Trove, 6 May 2019.
Further reading
edit- Ingpen, B. & Ingrid Staude-Griesel (Ed.) (2000) Horizons: The Story of Rennies, 1849-1999. Johannesburg: Rennies Management Services. ISBN 9780620267595
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