Name Eduard Bohlen Yard number 75 Length 95 m | Completed January 1891 Builder Blohm + Voss | |
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Fate Wrecked, 5 September 1909 | ||
Eduard Bohlen was a ship that was wrecked on the Skeleton Coast of German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) on 5 September 1909 in a thick fog. The wreck currently lies in the sand a quarter mile (0.4 km) from the shoreline.
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The ship was a 2,272 gross ton cargo ship with a length of 310 feet. In September 1909, she ran aground in thick fog and was wrecked at Conception Bay while on a voyage from Swakopmund to Table Bay. This wreck is said to symbolize the loneliness of Namibia’s coast best. Her remains lie rusting in the sand, partially buried. The wreck was featured in the 2011 television series Wonders of the Universe as well as a 1990s documentary on another vessel lost on the same beach miles away, the MV Dunedin Star. She was later featured in the 2016 Amazon Video series, The Grand Tour.
Otavi foundered here and sank in 1945.
