Wreck Site
The wreck was located 11.3 nautical miles (20.9 km) from Saint Catherine's Light in 1945, but was not positively identified until 1974. The ship is sitting upright on the ocean floor, but has started to break up, exposing her boilers.
In 2006, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission launched an education resource called "Let us die like brothers" to highlight the role played by black South Africans during the World War I. Although they were treated as inferior while alive, in death they are afforded the same level of commemoration as all other Commonwealth war dead.
In December 2006, English Heritage commissioned Wessex Archaeology to undertake an initial desk-based appraisal of the wreck. The project will identify a range of areas for potential future research and serve as the basis for a possible non-intrusive survey of the wreck itself in the near future.
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