Anyone find "Struys Points" ?

[jcmac]

A report in the Liverpool Mercury dated 8.12.1854 refers to Capetown 22.9.1854 and the loss of the ship "Chancellor" on 12.9.1854 at Struys Points.
Can anyone suggest where Struys Points was or is  or is now called please ?
jcmac.

[Christine53]

http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1868480&fid=5643&c=south_africa

You learn something everyday here !

[jcmac]

CB53.
I am impressed - in less than 4 minutes !!!
Won't tell you how long I tried G-----maps and got nowhere.
Many thanks.
jcmac.

[BumbleB]

Well done    And just for clarification, I believe that the vessel was the Chancellor Turner.

[BumbleB]

Looks like a new spelling on Google maps - Struiss - although the point is not named as such.  Struissbaai.

[3sillydogs]

ship details:

Sep 1854     Chancellor                      Barque                    860                   Grounded


Struisbaai is the commonly used name for the area.

[3sillydogs]

Extract from this site:
 https://grahamlesliemccallum.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/the-carolina-mccallums-south-african-mccallums


Captain Turner left Greenock, Scotland, on 22 December 1852 for Bombay, and from there traveled to Liverpool. In those days ships had to hug the coast of Africa, so when they returned from a second voyage from Bombay to Liverpool and reached the coast of Bredasdorp, the ship stranded east of Wagenhuiskrans, Bredasdorp, directly opposite the farm “Martha” belonging to Daniel Swart Esq. The wooden ship ‘Chancellor’ an 864 ton barque, captained by James Turner, was wrecked on the 12 September 1854 at Martha’s Strand (Beach) between Struisbaai and Waenhuiskrans (now called Arniston) with a valuable cargo on board. Archibald would have been 16 at the time of the wrecking. According to an American Paper who recorded the event – two souls were lost, the rest been saved. This section of the Cape coast lived up to the ‘Cape of Storms’ epithet, for the ship Arniston and the barque Etheldrid were similarly wrecked here too. The town of Bredasdorp mentioned by the elderly Archibald McCallum lies several miles inland from Waenshuiskrans. The farm ‘Martha’ mentioned by Archibald can be pinpointed today as Martha Point, named after the brig ‘Martha’ wrecked near Arniston in 1826. A remarkable 196 ships have wrecked along this section of coast.

[jcmac]

Thank you BB and 3sd for your additional input.
I don't feel so bad after seeing how the spelling has changed.
Also I found the McCallum site very interesting, especially the account of the loss, and if I can quote CB53 "You learn something every day here".
Regards,
jcmac. 

[BumbleB]

I think we can all agree with that sentiment    The only time we'll know it all, will be a little bit too late as we'll be in wooden boxes