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Journal Article
The story of the lighthouse at Agulhas
2016
Overview
From the time that the first Europeans rounded the Cape of Good Hope there was an ever-growing list of shipping casualties. But the authorities were indifferent, to the point of callousness, about providing guides and warning lights for the benefit of mariners. Such lights as were around the British Isles were privately owned; the aristocrats who ran the British Government shrugged off shipwrecks as being due to bad seamanship. Besides, there was a very lucrative industry in 'salvaging' wrecks, many of which had been deliberately lured to their fate by callous 'wreckers'. And so there were more wrecks and loss of life and loss of cargoes while the Government looked away. In the vicinity of Agulhas alone the Arniston was lost in 1815 and 372 souls perished, and there were several other wrecks in the next twenty years.
