Authors
B
Wiltrud Becker
Johann Bruwer
Nils Bruzelius
Antje Burke
D
Jürgen Dick
E
Victoria Ndinelago Erasmus
Willem Esterhuizen
F
Helmut Finkeldey
G
Anita Gossow
H
Axel Halbach
Almut Heddenhausen
Dag Henrichsen
Hans Hilpisch
Gertrud Hintze
Manfred O. Hinz
Pat Honeyborne
J
Tuulikki Jantunen
Marita Jendrischewski
K
Alwin Kemna
L
H. E. Lenssen
Theodor Leutwein
Olga Levinson
Orde Levinson
Jochen Lindorf
Edwin Loeb
M
Anne Maag
Lené Malan
Sebastian Mantei
Clever Mapaure
John Marsh
Henno Martin
Gordon McGregor
Henning Melber
Fritz Metzger
Mischo
Hans-Dietrich Moldzio
Sybille Muhle
N
Samson Ndeikwila
Noa Ndeutapo
Harald N. Nestroy
Andrew Niikondo
R
Kathleen Röllig
Eberhard Rosenblad
Oliver C. Ruppel
H. J. Rust
S
Alfred Schleicher
Manfred Schlorf
Sigrid Schmidt
Wilhelm Schneider
Barbara Seelk
Kalumbi Shangula
Aneta Shaw
Melinda Silverman
Peter Stark
Peter Strack
T
Gerhard Tötemeyer
Rainer Tröndle
V
Michael Vaupel
Heinrich Vedder
Conny von Dewitz
Erika von Wietersheim
G. R. von Wielligh
W
Hans Warncke
Ruth Winkler
Heide Wucher
John Marsh
John Henry Marsh (1914-1996) was a South African shipping expert, author and journalist. John H. Marsh was born on 07.03.1914 in Sea Point near Cape Town and showed a keen interest in ships from childhood on. Already as a schoolboy, he possessed a highly regarded collection of photographs of incoming ships and in the following years developed into an expert on ships and shipping. The Cape Argus newspaper took notice of him in 1928 and hired John H. Marsh as editor and photographer for maritime topics in 1933.
John H. Marsh died on 18.02.1996 in his library in Johannesburg and left behind, besides his wife Leona, their four children, Michael, David, Lee and Shayne Marsh.
Books
Skeleton Coast
The dramatic rescue operation of the Dunedin Star
by John Marsh
200 p. • 2014 • ISBN 99916-40-59-2 • 148 x 210 mm
The author, John Marsh, began writing about nautical subjects at the age of fourteen. He wrote in his preface: “This is the most remarkable shipwreck- and rescue story that has come my way in twenty years of waterfront reporting.”
The ship, the DUNEDIN STAR, ran aground at the Skeleton Coast of the then South West Africa in 1942/43.
When the call for aid came from the helpless men, women and children, marooned on that desert beach, the men of the South African Naval Forces, the Air Force, the Army and Police and the Administration for Railways and Harbours and even the Royal Navy got together to organize this amazing rescue operation.