{"id":567,"date":"2013-06-26T13:26:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamieandsue.co.uk\/?page_id=567"},"modified":"2013-06-27T10:47:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T10:47:56","slug":"ovington-court","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/?page_id=567","title":{"rendered":"Ovington Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 31<sup>st<\/sup> January 2008 I received an email saying:<\/p>\n<p>My name is Jonathan Oberholster. I am a freelance sub-editor for Independent Newspapers and I live in South Beach, Durban.<br \/>\nMy hobby is scuba diving and I am researching a local shipwreck lying offshore near my flat. The ship&#8217;s name is the Ovington Court and searching the net is how I came across your Cyril Crawford page.<br \/>\nIn his Durban notes Cyril refers to South Beach and Ovington Court.<br \/>\nLooking at the date on which he left England (November 15 1940) and the date he arrived in Egypt (January 1 1941), I noticed something interesting &#8211; the Ovington Court ran aground on November 26 1940, only eleven days after he left England.<br \/>\nI guess he must have arrived in Durban just about when or shortly after it ran aground. It was a Durban landmark for many years before disintegrating to the extent that the wreck is now underwater 99% of the time. Only during spring low does a piece of it still stick out above the surface.<br \/>\nI thought you might be interested and decided to e-mail you. There is a pretty good site with all the details of what happened to the Ovington Court\u00a0<a title=\"Research into the Ovington Court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fad.co.za\/Resources\/ovi\/ovington.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fad.co.za\/Resources\/ovi\/ovington.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After many emails going back and forth with photos attached of postcards, Grandad and general information about him and the family, my Grandad finally ended up in the <a title=\"The Independant on Saturday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/ios\" target=\"_blank\">Independent on Saturday<\/a> on 16<sup>th<\/sup> February 2008. A copy of the article was sent to me by Jonathan showing me exactly what went into the paper. I am very pleased that some chance comments on Grandad&#8217;s postcard has created news nearly 70 years later.<\/p>\n<p>On the 19<sup>th<\/sup> September 2011 another email came from Jonathan with an article attached dated 17<sup>th<\/sup> September 2011. This time we have Grandad appearing in the same paper but with a headline stating that this was the best of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>As I never knew what the Ovington Court was this has really touched my heart and I am longing to visit Durban and hopefully see the wreck of the ship myself one day.<\/p>\n<p>Please take time to read the articles which you will find below.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"15 minutes of fame\" href=\"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/The-Independent-on-Saturday-16-feb-2008..pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent on Saturday 16th February 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Another 15 minutes of fame\" href=\"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/The-Independent-on-Saturday-17-September-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent on Saturday 17th September 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cyril Crawford\" href=\"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/?page_id=244\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 31st January 2008 I received an email saying: My name is Jonathan Oberholster. I am a freelance sub-editor for Independent Newspapers and I live in South Beach, Durban. My hobby is scuba diving and I am researching a local shipwreck lying offshore near my flat. The ship&#8217;s name is the Ovington Court and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-567","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieandsue.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}