mazeppa bay

The Mazeppa, owned by John Owen Smith, was based in Algoa Bay from 1837 to 1848, when she moved to Port Louis, Mauritius. In 1858, she was "sold abroad". In those 20 years she sailed all along the Southern African coast and across the Atlantic and Indian oceans and gave her name to Mazeppa Bay. She seems to have been built as a slaver in the U.S.A. in about 1830 and one of her mysteries is whether or not she continued in that trade in the African and Mauritian periods of her life. Bayworld … [Read more...] about More About the Disappearance of Mazeppa