Madagascar (1855 ship) explained

The Madagascar was a ship of the Rennie line^[1] that was lost in 1858 after it hit a reef near the mouth of the Birha River, south of East London, in South Africa, around midnight on 3 December. Attempts to keep the ship afloat failed and it was run aground on the 4th and broke up. There were no deaths.^{[2] [3]}

Further reading

• Ingpen, B. & Ingrid Staude-Griesel (Ed.) (2000) Horizons: The Story of Rennies, 1849-1999. Johannesburg: Rennies Management Services.

Notes and References

1. http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=19941 Madagascar.
2. "Rennie's Steamer Service: Natal and Cape Colonies", R. N. Porter, The South African Philatelist, Vol. 90, No. 6 (December 2014), Whole No. 927, pp. 178-182.
3. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3252928 "Loss of the Steamer Madagascar"