Wolraad Woltemade
Cape Dutch dairy farmer; famous for saving lives in a shipwreck in 1773 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wolraad Woltemade (c.1708 – 1 June 1773) was a Cape Dutch dairy farmer, who died while rescuing sailors from the wreck of the ship De Jonge Thomas in Table Bay on 1 June 1773.[1] The story was reported by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg[2] who was in South Africa as a surgeon for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (known in English as the Dutch East India Company) at the time.[3]
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Wolraad Woltemade | |
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Born | 1708 |
Died | 1 June 1773 At the mouth of the Salt River, near Cape Town, Dutch Cape Colony |
Monuments | Wolraad Woltemade statue, near Woltemade Trainstation, Cape Town |
Nationality | Dutch |
Occupation | Dairy farmer |
Known for | Afrikaans folklore |
Spouse | Janna Charlotta Woltemade |
Children | 1 |
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