Near Oudekraal

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Against the background of Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles.

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Spectators crammed the parking lot opposite the wrecked tanker at Oudekraal. Traffic patrol cars stood by to control parking and to keep traffic flowing along Victoria Road.

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Two derelict tankers, on their way from lay-up in Greece to scrap merchants in the Far East, ran aground on the Atlantic seaboard side of the Peninsula on the 28th July 1977.

The 42,050-ton Antipolis and the 32,913-ton Romelia were being towed by the tiny 252-ton Japanese tug Kiyo Maru No. 2, when cables parted in a raging north-westerly storm. By daybreak the two ships were both hard aground and being pounded by huge seas.

The wrecks, at Oudekraal and Llandudno respectively, attracted thousands of spectators and a new phrase "check-a-wreck" was added to the local vocabulary.

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