SAS Assegaai 1 - Overview.mp4
An overview of the SAS Assegaai Museum Submarine in the Simon's Town Naval Base in South Africa by Rear Admiral Arné Soderlund (SAN Ret.)
SAS Assegaai 3 - External.mp4
Brief external view of the SAS Assegaai Museum Submarine in the Simon's Town Naval Base in South Africa
SAS Assegaai 2 - Walk through.mp4
Walk though of the SAS Assegaai Museum Submarine in the Simon's Town Naval Base in South Africa
Simons Town Naval Air show
Simons Town Navy Airshow - Shot and Edited by Juandre Van Der Merwe and Music (African Hangover) Written and Performed by Manfred Klose (DLK Studio's)
SAS Assegaai Submarine Trailer
TKW Productions proudly presents the SAS Assegaai, formerly the SAS Johanna van der Merwe, was one of three Daphne-class submarines acquired from France during 1970 to 1972, which became the first submarines to serve in the South African Navy. She is 58m long and had a complement of six officers and 45 senior and junior ratings. Fitted with 12 x 550mm torpedo tubes, she could also carry sea mines.
She was renamed SAS Assegaai (Assegaai is the Afrikaans word for 'spear') in 1999 and was the last of the SA Navy’s Daphne class submarines in commission and finally decommissioned in 2003. Currently, she is preserved as a floating museum but will be preserved ashore at the Naval Museum by 2013.
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SAS Assegaai dive
Dive to SAS Assegaai Submarine Museum to ascertain the amount of underwater growth. This was done in preparation for the submarine's upcoming repair and maintenance docking in July 2015.
The SA Navy pulled out all the stops for its fourteenth annual festival.
The South African Navy pulled out all the stops for its fourteenth annual festival at East Dockyard in Simonstown.
Over this weekend there will be various events in the main arena that both young and old will find entertaining.
Submarine
Paddling past the The SAS Assegaai museum submarine in Simonstown Harbour
Remembering the South African Navy Frigate, SAS President Kruger. The event of 18th February, 1982.
The SAS President Kruger was a frigate of the South African Navy. She sank in 1982 with the loss of 16 lives after colliding with her replenishment ship, the SAS Tafelberg, in the South Atlantic.
SAS President Kruger was one of three President-class type 12 frigates obtained by the South African Navy in the 1960s following the Simonstown Agreement with the Royal Navy. She was christened upon launch by the wife of Admiral Hugo Biermann; her home port was Simonstown, near Cape Town.
On 5 August 1969, she was recommissioned after an extensive refit and modernization.
She participated in various operations during the South African Border War, including the Ambrizete Incident.
The aging President Class frigates were earmarked for disposal in 1978, with newer D'Estienne d'Orves class vessels scheduled to replace them. However the imposition of United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 put an end to both the sale of the replacement corvettes, as well as any refurbishment of the President Class frigates.
On 18 February 1982, while under the command of Captain de Lange, the President Kruger was conducting complex exercises with the submarine SAS Emily Hobhouse, another frigate, the SAS President Pretorius and the replenishment ship SAS Tafelberg. The high-intensity exercises progressed from 6 am to 11 pm over several days, with different candidate submarine captains being given an opportunity of executing a mock attack against the Tafelberg. From 11 pm until 6 am, the ships followed a narrow zip-zag course that allowed the submarine repeated opportunities to engage the surface ships in lower-intensity exercises while the bulk of the crew rested.
The frigates too were using the opportunity to carry out anti-submarine exercises, with each ship given a patrol sector ahead of the Tafelberg. The escorts were expected to patrol their areas in a random fashion, between 2,000 feet (610 m) and 5,000 feet (1,500 m) from Tafelberg. The President Kruger's station was on Tafelberg's port side between 10 and 330 degrees. The President Steyn had a reciprocal box on the starboard side.
At approximately 4 am, the whole formation had to change direction by 154 degrees, a near complete reversal in direction. The frigates had to change direction first to maintain their protective positions ahead of Tafelberg on the new heading. President Kruger's options were to turn 200 degrees to port, or 154 degrees to starboard. While the latter turn was smaller and tactically sound, it was more dangerous as it involved turning towards the other two ships. Critically, the officer of the watch (OOW) elected to turn to starboard, and initiated a 10 degree turn. A 10 degree turn had a larger radius and would take longer to execute than a 15 degree turn, thereby allowing Tafelberg more time to close on the ship turning in front of her. Partway through the turn, the operations room lost radar contact with the Tafelberg in the clutter. At that point, an argument ensued between the OOW and the Principal Warfare Officer over the degree of wheel to apply. The OOW was unable to recover the situation, and the bows of the Tafelberg impacted the President Kruger on her port side at the senior ratings' mess. The President Kruger sank 78 nautical miles (144 km) south west of Cape Point with the loss of sixteen lives.
A Westland Wasp helicopter, operated by 22 Squadron SAAF from the other frigate, rescued crew members from the water.
A naval board of inquiry was commissioned, leading to a finding of a lack of seamanship by the captain and officers of the ship. The Minister of Justice introduced a retrospective change in law to allow him to hold an inquest into the death of one of the seamen. The inquest aportioned blame on the captain and PWO. However none of the officers was court-martialled.
As a result of an international arms embargo against apartheid South Africa, the ship could not be replaced, and was therefore a great loss to the capability and morale of the navy for many years afterwards.
The Navy's prestigious 'Cock of the Fleet' trophy, which had been won by her ship's crew in the annual rowing regatta, was lost with the ship.
The offiical SAS Presient Kruger website @
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South African Navy Submarine return to base after an unknown operation.
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Shipwreck SAS Pietermaritzburg
Scuba diving in the Shipwreck SAS Pietermaritzburg. False Bay, South Africa.
HMS Pelorus was an Algerine-class minesweeper, built by Lobnitz of Renfrew, Scotland and launched on 19 June 1943. While equipped with minesweeping gear, she was primarily assigned to convoy escort duty in the Atlantic. In 1944, she led the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
In 1947 the ship was sold to the South African Navy and renamed HMSAS Pietermaritzburg (and later SAS Pietermaritzburg). Still afloat well into the 1990s, many people wished to turn the ship into a maritime museum, but instead she was scuttled on 12 November 1994 to make an artificial reef at Miller's Point near Simon’s Town, South Africa.
The wreck settled upright on the sand and remained fully intact for a number of years. During storms in 2006, the wreck was badly damaged and broke into three parts. However there are still a few places for divers to penetrate, therefore still making it a good wreck to dive. It houses abundant marine life and is a safe haven for a many species of fish. Maximum depth is 22 metres (72 ft) on the sand. The wreck and surrounding 300 metres (980 ft) was declared a South African National Heritage Site on 23 August 2013.
Pelorus displaced 850 tons and had a crew complement of 85 men. Her armament consisted of a single 4-inch (102 mm) antiaircraft gun, and four 20 mm guns. She was powered by reciprocating engines generating 2,000 shp (1.5 MW) driving two shafts.
TKW Friday Funday outing 02/08/2015 - Submarine Tour
Hello #TKWFam! In this video our EFL students and teachers go on a guided tour of the SAS Assegaai S99 Submarine in Simon's Town. This is a sneak peek of life aboard a submarine. Watch it. Like it. Love it. Share it. #TKWFam
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Just a glimpse of how the Navy trains - Gordon's Bay
SA Navy guys and gals training & Gordonsbay Westren Cape Military beach
Shipbuilder cuts steel for the SA's Navy hydrographic survey vessel
A Durban-based shipbuilder has cut steel for the South African Navy's new hydrographic survey vessel - said to be 'the most complex and technically advanced vessel that has ever been built in the country'. Southern African Shipyards - SAS has partnered with international company Vard Marine to develop the vessel.
For more news, visit: sabcnews.com
SAS Protea & Wasp helicopter, Marion Island Nov 1974
from 8mm film donated to the SA Naval Museum by Cdr R.T. Tripp. SAS Protea voyage to Marion Island November 1974. Westland Wasp helicopter (96) of 22 Squadron, South African Air Force, take-off and landing.
SANDF conducts a multi-national maritime training exercise
The battle against illegal trade in humans, drugs and weapons is getting a boost through an event by the South African Defence Force.
It is currently hosting a nearly month-long multi-national maritime training exercise in Simon's Town. The 22-day exercise, includes navy vessels from as far as Brazil and Uruguay.
For more news, visit: sabcnews.com
SA's first woman submarine sailor
A Cape Town navy officer has become South Africa's first woman to steer her own ship. Courtesy of #DSTV403
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