Conception Bay (Namibia)

Bay on the coast of Namibia

23°55′S 14°30′E / 23.917°S 14.500°E / -23.917; 14.500Ocean/sea sourcesAtlantic OceanBasin countriesNamibiaSettlementsNone

Conception Bay (Afrikaans: Conceptionbaai, German: Empfängnisbucht)^[1] is a bay on the coast of Namibia, Africa.^[2] The bay is exposed, thus not providing a useful anchorage.

Geography

Conception Bay opens to the Atlantic Ocean in the northwest. There is a lagoon at the southern edge of its shoreline. The bay is located in a desolate area. It is part of one of the coastal stretches of Namibia where diamonds are found.^[3]

Shipwrecks

On 30 July 1926 the SS Cawdor Castle, a cargo ship under the flag of the United Kingdom, ran aground in Conception Bay.^[4]^[5] She broke up over the following weeks and was a complete wreck by early September.^[6]

References

^ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Band I, S. 562
^ "Conception Bay". Mapcarta. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
^ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Band I, S. 447 ff.
^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 44338. London. 31 July 1926. col G, p. 8.
^ "Union-Castle liner ashore". The Times. No. 44338. London. 31 July 1926. col C, p. 20.
^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 44368. London. 4 September 1926. col G, p. 17.