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CPUT Special Collections: CPUT Maritime Collection

This guide provides information on special collections in CPUT libraries.

Maritime collection

This collection is particularly preserved for those with an interest in ships and shipping history. It is held at the Granger Bay library.

 

Useful links

S.A. Training Ship General Botha Old Boys Association

Hosts ships photographs that passed through Cape Town between 1930 and 1960.

Passenger lists for ships that left Hamburg during the second half of the 19th Century and early 20th Century to bring Germans to South Africa and to other parts of Africa.

The Ships List
Includes Passenger list, Fleet lists, Ship's pictures, Marriages at the sea, ship wrecks, Famine emigrants, information on Union Castle sips and more. 
 

 

Resources

Contact

For all queries related to maritime collection contact Nontobeko Xwayi.


Nontobeko Xwayi

Librarian: Granger Bay Library

Cape Peninsula University of Technology Libraries

48 Beach Road

Mouille Point

Cape Town

South Africa

8000

E-mail: xwayin@cput.ac.za 

Tel: +27 (0) 21 440 5743

 

 

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