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From: "D. Morris" <>
Subject: Re: Maid of the Thames : Shipwreck 1848
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 09:57:59 +0200


My apologies - I have added to the confusion it seems - Ted Burrows does
indeed also refer to "Maid of the Thames", 1848, at Skips Kop, citing Turner
and Bredasdorp Museum as his sources. A strange co-incidence, these two
vessels with such similar names being wrecked so close to one another .
D.
-----Original Message-----
From: twille <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, May 02, 1998 6:01 PM
Subject: Maid of the Thames : Shipwreck 1848

>Hi Wally and Fred
>Me again. Apparently Skipskop was named after the wreck of the Maid of the
>Thames because the bow of the ship remained visible from the shore. Ted
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