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SALDANHA BAY

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 60 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SALDANHA BAY , an inlet on the
south
 -western
coast
  of
South
  Africa, 63 m. by sea N. by W. of Cape Town, forming a land-locked harbour. The northern
part
  of the inlet is known as Hoetjes Bay. It has
accommodation
  for a large
fleet
  with deep water close inshore, but the arid nature of the country caused it to be neglected by the early navigators, and with the growth of Cape Town Saldanha Bay was rarely visited. Considerable deposits of freestone in the neighbourhood attracted attention during the later 19th century. - Proposals were also made to create a port which could be supplied by water from the Berg river, 20 M. distant. From Kalabas Kraal on the Cape Town-Clanwilliam railway, a narrow gauge line runs via Hopefield to Hoetjes Bay126 m. from Cape Town.
Saldanha Bay is so named after Antonio de Saldanha, captain of a vessel in Albuquerque's
fleet
  which visited South Africa in 1503. The name was first given to Table Bay, where Saldanha's ship cast anchor. On Table Bay being given its present name (1601) the older appellation was transferred to the bay now called after Saldanha. In 1781 a British
squadron
  under
Commodore
  George
Johnstone
  1731-1787) seized six Dutch
East
  Indiamen, which, fearing an attack on Cape Town, had taken
refuge
  in Saldanha Bay. This was the only achievement, so far as South Africa was concerned, of the expedition despatched to seize Cape Town during the war of 1781-1783.


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