1773
Wolraad Woltemade, South African folk hero (born 1708)
Wolraad Woltemade, South African folk hero (born 1708)
Wolraad Woltemade, South African folk hero (born 1708)
Wolraad Woltemade
Cape Dutch dairy farmer; famous for saving lives in a shipwreck in 1773
- Died
- 1773
Wolraad Woltemade 1708 – 1 June 1773 was a Cape Dutch dairy farmer, who died while rescuing sailors from the wreck of the ship De Jonge Thomas in Table Bay on 1 June 1773. The story was reported by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg who was in South Africa as a surgeon for the Dutch East India Company at the time.