DOES ANY KNOW ABOUT EAST LONDON

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ANYONE KNOW ABOUT EAST LONDON - THE VOC losses along its coast, now it is not EAST london UK but SA
I will try find its original name but for now its closer to the Ciskei and or Transkei. Maybe Mr.Ribe or Cornelius may know of vessels lost thereabouts.
ELSA

 

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[EASTLONDONSA]

This is where I was born and as history would have spent most of my life , growing up.
There are two sites I am aware of, one found by my late brother on the Natal coast, the second by family forward of the Kei river mouth near Yellow Sands and Queensberry Bay also the area may appear as Kwellega this is the Xhosa name for the area. (Xhosa being the local native tribe as opposed to the Natal Tribes which are Zulu, Nelson Mandela is Xhosa!) I have some blue and white porcelain and smaller objects which washed up as a kid I would walk the beach after a storm and collect all sorts I will endeavour to postwhat I can, PC will only be around once in a while. So in a few moments I will post a vessel I found which is very very intact , it rolled of the bank and sunk in +-120 feet and is mud packed. hence the toredo worm and others alike have had trouble chewing past the copper sheeting.
ELSA