Abandoned // WW1 Bunker // Cape Town
Do you SCARE easily? I went to explore an ABANDONED World War One bunker in Cape Town and found myself all ALONE, in a DARK underground LABYRINTH!
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This is one of the coastal batteries installed around the coast during WW2. South Africa had one of the most extensive coastal defence systems of any of the commonwealth nations. Cape Town and it's approaches were guarded by nine 9.2 inch coastal guns - 3 on Robben Island, 3 at Apostle battery and 3 at Scala battery. The Apostle guns could fire into False Bay and the Scala guns could fire into Table Bay. They never fired a round in anger. The last guns were only installed after WW2 was over. The chain stretched from Saldanha Bay to Durban and consisted of many smaller guns as well - 6 inch coastal guns being the most numerous - and at Fort Wynyard there are still a couple. Fort Wynyard was the close defence fortress for Table Bay. I do not recall if any of the six inch guns remain at Signal Hill - I have a feeling they were removed when the chain was finally declared obsolete in 1975. It survived that long in mothballs despite there being no ammunition for it since the nineteen fifties. A chain of radar stations provided targetting data. At one stage South Africa bought the 15 inch gunned monitor HMS Roberts to provide extra gunfire support but the Brits cancelled the deal at the outbreak of WW2. In 1976 I was part of a team that went up to Fort Collins to reactivate the 10cm radar station there as an exercise.
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Things to do in Cape Town // Abandoned Shipwreck // BOS400
You may know this shipwreck from the awesome viral video by Chris Roger showcasing a 70ft rope swing they made off the crane of the infamous BOS400 abandoned shipwreck. If a visit to this ominous site is on your list of things to do in Cape Town, I highly recommend that you go as a group and that it's not for novices.
A bit more about the BOS400
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The BOS 400 is a French Derrick/Lay Barge that ran aground while being towed by the Russian tugboat Tigr on June 26, 1994.[1]
The Tigr was chartered to tow the BOS 400 from Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo to Cape Town, South Africa. The tow-rope broke loose during a storm and causing the vessel to run aground off Duiker Point near Sandy Bay.[2][3]
Despite several towage attempts, the shipwreck was considered a total loss as salvors were able to recover little from the wreck.
The Tigr tugboat was built in 1987 in Polish shipyards. Following the accident, it remained idle in the Cape Town docks from 1994 to 2000, when it was sold for $625,000.[4]
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