A TALE OF TWO LIGHTS and the stranding of the motor ship Winton
The 4,388gt motor ship Winton was on a voyage from Australia to Britain with 6,000 tons of wheat in July 1934, when she ran aground off Milnerton Beach in heavy weather. The vessel, which had been built in 1928, got into difficulty in the surf zone north of Milnerton Beach in Table Bay off South Africa.
The red flashing breakwater light at Cape Town harbour served as a navigational marker for ships entering the harbour, but there was also a much stronger bright red flashing light situated atop the broadcast wireless mast at Milnerton, which acted as a navigational marker for aeroplanes approaching Brooklyn Aerodrome (now Ysterplaat Air Force Base). Some referred to
