18/06/2025
Learn something about some of the fascinating history of shipwrecks on the Wild Coast
In 1782, a British East Indiaman named the Grosvenor struck the wild and jagged coastline of what is now South Africa’s Eastern Cape. What followed was not just a tale of shipwreck, but a haunting odyssey across one of the most treacherous—and politically volatile—regions in the world.
Over a hundred survivors stepped ashore that morning. Most would never be seen again.
This is a story of betrayal and bravery, of desperation and endurance. It’s a story of colonial frontiers and clashing cultures, of women and children abandoned, of diamonds lost and found. Of a young Anglo-Indian boy whose suffering moved a nation—and of men who vanished into the wilderness, never to return.
Through the archives, into the veld, and across time, we uncover what happened when the sea delivered a shipload of strangers into a land already at war—with itself.
Follow this captivating story on your favourite podcast channel Than A Story:
https://open.spotify.com/show/6tT1XfC39MUJ0hpk63xCGJ?si=1b0ba96fab5243fe
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