Arniston
Arniston was a British East Indiaman that made eight voyages for the East India Company (EIC).
Arniston was a British East Indiaman that made eight voyages for the East India Company (EIC). She was wrecked on 30 May 1815 during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives – only six on board survived. She had been chartered as a troopship and was underway from Ceylon to England on a journey to repatriate wounded soldiers from the Kandyan Wars.
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Getting to Arniston
- Airports
- Cape Town (CPT), 169 km · George (GRJ), 208 km
- Cape Town → Arniston185 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · R185–250
- George → Arniston219 km · quickest by road, 4h 35m · R275–365
- Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) → Arniston501 km · quickest by road, 9h 33m · R560–750
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No local-transport research exists yet for Arniston
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Arniston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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