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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Dimond, John T; edited by Gabriel and Nikolai Athiros

Wrecked Under the Green Point Light

The background to the Green and Mouille Point lights and stories of six shipwrecks in the area

Published: Historical Media, Cape Town, 2009

Edition: First

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The cover illustration is the Prince Rupert from an oil painting by Peter Bilas.

The author, John Dimond, completed his research and writing of the MS of this book in the late 1970s, but the MS was not discovered until his possessions were auctioned after his death. The present book is an edited version of his seven completed chapters - with two incomplete chapters, on the wrecks of the Mulgrove Castle (1825) and the Livanos (1847), having to be discarded. The remaining six wrecks are the Juliana (1839), the Prince Rupert (1841), RMS Athens (1865), SS Thermopylae (1899), SS Aotea (1911) and the S A Seafarer (1966).

Other chapters are "Green Point or Mouille Point Light?" and "Shipwrecks from Mouille Point to Green Point".

This is a slight book - colour wrap-around limp covers and 111 pp of text and index - but the excellent, illustrations, especially, compensate for several advertising pages. 

This excellent copy may well appeal to collectors of Southern African shipwrecks who may have overlooked its low-key publication eight years ago.

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 240 x 170
  • Sold By: Fontein Books
  • Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Eft (South Africa), SWIFT (rest of world), or $ checks for US or Australian buyers
  • Trade Associations: AA Approved


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