Heroism of Wolraad Woltemade.

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ZA KAB #_#_VC579-581_#
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Cape Town Archives Repository
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GH
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National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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Photocopy (English, Dutch, French); 23 pp.; 3 vols. Title pages from various publications.
-- Article on the voyage of the ship Jonge Thomas in 1772-1773 from Texel to the Cape and its subsequent wreck, with efforts of Woltemade to save those on board. Character and background of Woltemade and Van Plettenberg mentioned, 1880.
-- Article on the wreck of the Jonge Thomas in 1773 and Woltemade's heroism, 1781.
-- Article describing conditions leading to the wreck of the Jonge Thomas and Woltemade's heroic act, 1815.

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