History & heritageSimon's Town, South Africa
SS Lusitania
Offshore historical wreck dive site of passenger liner.
About
SS Lusitania was a Portuguese twin-screw ocean liner of 5,557 tons, built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, and owned by Empresa Nacional de Navegação, of Lisbon. The ship was wrecked on Bellows Rock off Cape Point, South Africa at 24h00 on 18 April 1911 in fog while en route from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique, with 25 first-class, 57 second-class and 121 third-class passengers, and 475 African labourers. Out of the 774 people on board, eight died when a life boat capsized.
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Location
Open map: SS Lusitania and 3 nearby attractions-34.39000, 18.49417 · Simon's Town
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- Cape of Good Hope: Zaian ( talk ) at en.wikipedia · Public domain · Commons
- Boulders Beach: Self · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Commons
- Chapman's Peak: Martinvl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
- BOS 400: Timothy Haig-Smith · CC BY 2.5 · Commons
- Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Andrawaag · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
- Groote Schuur: Janek Szymanowski · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons






