7. Whale Steamer Pisang, Norway
I visited the graveyard in February 2008 looking for my grandfather's grave. He was buried in the N3 graveyard October 1914 together with 3 other men from a crew of a capsized whale steamer. D/wh Pisang. The vessel capsized on 1st September 1914 and five of the crewmen died in this accident. I found my grandfather's grave - it was 4 stones, not regular gravestone but only a stone without name, but Margaret Parkes told my where this grave was. In a little part of this graveyard, people from Plettenberg Bay were buried because there was not any graveyard in this small village in 1914. Margaret Parkes is a historian and writer and has a lot of information about the maritime history of the Western Cape and the area around Knysna . I visited her together with my friend from Norway. But Historian and writer Margaret Parkes from Knysna told me vere to find the grave and she told us that it was not a stone with a name, only a stone found in the nature. I send four pictures, one of the single stone and one picture of the big oak, and under this oak the gravestone is . The third picture is me by the grave February 2008. The last picture is all the stones with a norwegian flag. The names of the crewmen who are buried here are: Captain Sivert SVENDSEN from Norway, died 65 years old, buried 2 September 1914 First Engineer Karl Ivar HØGBERG, died 47 years old and buried 12 October 1914 Engine Assistant Pethrus ØERN... buried 11 October 1914. The last man was unknown--- only called 'body of sailor'. All of them from the west side of Norway - around Haugesund city. From the Whale Steamer Pisang which capsized 1 September 1914 by the famous place The Heads. If you visit CXpress, the Plettenberg newspaper, you can log in and on page 236 in chapter of letters, and you will find the picture of the crewmen and information about this accident. Link: http://www.cxpress.co.za (GO TO ISSUE 236) Best regards from Helge Kalleland Haugesund -- Norway---- West coast by the North Sea 5 August 2008
1. Old oak tree with overview of graves
2. The stones
3. Helge KALLELAND at the site
HOGBERG Karl Ivar -1914