SKELETON COAST
by John H Marsh
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS |
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| Map ot SWA/Namibia |
| The Dunedin Star ashore as first seen from Naude's aircraft(view1, view2, view3) |
| The Dunedin Star looking a sorry sight seven months afterwards |
| Captain Immins Naude and his intrepid crew |
| Naude's Ventura bomber "Aircraft K" stuck in loose sand |
| The castaways rude shelters on the beach |
| The castaways posing bravely to be photographed |
| The rescue ships: Temeraire; H.M.S.A.S. Nerine; H.M.S.A.S. Crassula, H.M.S.A.S. Natalia |
| The tug Sir Charles Elliott being repaired in dry dock; wrecked among the breakers; her master, Captain Harry Brewin |
| Captain John ("Pump") Brafield Smith; with his family on board ship |
| Captain Smith's overland rescue convoy struggling to get across a dried-up river; one of the trucks and its water trailerbogged |
| In the terrible 20-mile canyon every vehicle is bogged; the water barrels are filled for the last time at a waterhole before the start of the desert crossing |
| The repair truck sunk up to its running boards in the salt pan; soft sand pock-marked with myriads of small sand dunes blocks the way of the vehicles |
| Rescuers and rescued - Denis Scully, who swam with the life-line through the surf; Corporal Harvey bringing four crew men of the wrecked liner back to civilisation |
| The ill-fated Melbourne Star to which the rescued crew of the Dunedin Star, her sister ship, were posted just before she was blown up |
| Three years after the drama a mineralogical surveyor reached the scene and took these photographs |
| Skeleton Coast in 1978 |
| The Khomas Hochland |
| Rossing Uranium Mine |
| Naukluft sand dune mountain |
| Swakopmund |
| Salt mine; Wlotzka's Baken |
| The cross of Diogo Cam at Cape Cross |
| Cape Cross seal colony |
| Beach seal colony; guano-collecting platforms |
| Abandoned drilling station in the desert |
| Shipwrecks |
| More shipwrecks |
| Aircraft flying over the desert |
| The battle between the sand and the sea |
| Desert airfield |
| Mowe Bay, the only settlement on Skeleton Coast; Rocky Point, site of dramatic rescues |
| Sarusas: Louw Schoeman and his wife, Maureen |
| "Rommel, the Desert Fox"; visitors at the abandoned amethyst mine |
| Land-Rovering in the Skeleton Coast Park |
| Wind-eroded rock faces; forbidding terrain |
| The mystery abandoned village |
| Abandoned water barrels from Smiths convoy |
| The Dunedin Star wreck area and relics |
| Seals at play and gemsbuck at rest |
| Picnicking; elephant spoor; miracle garden |
| The Sir Charles Elliott wreck site and the grave of Mathias |
| Remains of Naude's bomber |
| Wreck of the Karimona; diamond-prospector's abandoned apparatus at Rocky Point |
| Suiderkus wreck; sliding down the sand dunes |
| Ghost crabs; Mountain zebra |
| Diamonds galore |
Copyright Mike Marsh(2006)