Eduard Bohlen

Eduard Bohlen was a ship that was wrecked on the Skeleton Coast of German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) on 5 September 1909 in a thick fog. The wreck currently lies in the sand 400 m (1,300 ft) from the shoreline.

Service

The ship was a 2,272 gross ton cargo ship with a length of 94 m (310 ft). In September 1909, it ran aground in thick fog and was wrecked at Conception Bay while on a voyage from Swakopmund to Table Bay.

Wreck

The Bohlen lies near two other wrecks, the Otavi, which foundered here and sank in 1945, and MV Dunedin Star, among the many wrecks of the Skeleton Coast.

In popular culture

• A 1990s documentary on another vessel lost on the same beach miles away, the MV Dunedin Star, also featured the Bohlen.
• The wreck was featured in the 2011 television series Wonders of the Universe.
• It was featured in the 2016 Amazon Video series The Grand Tour.
• It features as the finish point for the 2020 sport relief The Heat Is On.
• It made an appearance in a scene in the 2024 Amazon Video series Fallout.

References

External links

1. Skeleton Coast
2. List of The Grand Tour episodes
3. Charles E. Bohlen
4. Fallout (American TV series)
5. Table Bay
6. RMS Republic (1903)
7. SS Florida (1905)
8. USS Katahdin (1893)
9. List of shipwrecks of Africa
10. SS Kaiser Wilhelm II
11. SS Henry Phipps
12. SS Waratah
13. Wonders of the Universe
14. RMS Lucania
15. SS Edward Y. Townsend
16. SS Penguin
17. SS Vigilancia
18. Alligator (steamboat)
19. USS Nezinscot
20. SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2