Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Shipwreck memorial in South End Cemetery: Probably the biggest maritime disaster that ever took place on the Port Elizabeth coastline happened way back during the Great Gale of 1902. On Sunday, 31 August 1902 there were 38 ships at anchor along the then North End Beach. Rain and a south-easterly wind started to lash the bay and by midnight the storm turned into a hurricane. By the end of the storm on 2 September 1902, … [Read more...] about Shipwreck memorial in South End Cemetery – Featured Blog

