Port Shepstone Lighthouse
Port Shepstone Lighthouse - South Coast, KwaZulu Natal © Port Shepstone Lighthouse
The Port Shepstone lighthouse is located about 500m south of the Umzimkulu River mouth on the Natal South Coast, and was developed out of a signal station, which was used when Port Shepstone was still an operational harbour. 1906 saw the signal station being replaced with the current cast iron lighthouse. The
iron lighthouse was cast in Britain and shipped to Natal in the 1890's. The structure was transported from Scottburgh, further up the Natal coast, where it previously stood warning ships of the southern end of the Aliwal Shoal.
The eight meter circular lighthouse is painted in black and white cheques, and has become a familiar landmark to people visiting Port Shepstone over the years. The beam shines across a distance of twenty six miles out to sea, and 1 130 000
CD light power. The coastline extending southwards between Port Shepstone and
Cape Hermes at Port St Johns is particularly dangerous, and is well known for
its shipwrecks.
The most well known of these wrecks are perhaps the Sao Joao and the Grosvenor.
The Sao Joao was the first cargo ship to be wrecked along South Africa's
coastline, carrying pepper, Chinese porcelain, cowry shells, cornelian beads and
other merchandise. The ship, with around 600 people on board, ran aground off
what is now known as Port Edward, near the Kuboboyi River. One hundred died
attempting to get ashore, the rest made a temporary camp, near 'Tragedy Hill'
(since named for a massacre in 1831 of the local Nguni clan by a Zulu war band).
The Grosvenor sank beneath the waves off the Pondoland shore with her hoard
which legend insists included jewels, gold and silver bars and some say the
fabulous Peacock Throne of the Moguls, believed to be worth well over 6 Million
Pounds.
Razor sharp rocks, strong currents, pounding surf and inaccessibility to this
wreck has put paid to recovering any treasures that might lie beneath the murky
waters.
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