These things the wisdom of the harbour authorities must decide. An increased delivery-capacity of boo tons per hour has gone far to solve Durban's loading problem during rush periods at the harbour. Its Port is the busiest in South Africa and also one of the 10 largest in the World. After several more bloody assaults and attacks, the Voortrekkers defeated the Zulus in the dramatic Battle of the Blood River. It is a habit of mind that makes for constant vigilance in the public interest. Mit umliegenden Orten bildet sie die Metropolgemeinde eThekwini. The Natal Germans are very proud of their German heritage (eg. this site Donate here. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Natal.Natal was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May 1843 after the British had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia.. "As the inhabitants of the only maritime town of the District" -so ran the petition-: "Your excellency will not be surprised that we are anxious prominently to bring under your notice the capabilities and requirements of the port as the entrepot for the commerce, not only of the District of Natal, but of extensive regions beyond its borders. Abambo People. Hitherward of the graving dock the maize elevator rears its head. Restaurants near Port Natal Maritime Museum: (0.20 km) Roma Revolving Restaurant (0.80 km) 9th Avenue Bistro (0.38 km) Ulundi Restaurant (0.40 km) Fanatix Cafe at The Playhouse (1.06 km) Big Easy Durban by Ernie Els; View all restaurants near Port Natal Maritime Museum on Tripadvisor | Blog | Donate Only sporadically some pirates and ivory or slave dealers laid anchor, and it was much later, in the year 1824, that a proper settlement started, initially named "Port Natal". Meantime it had been brought home to the authorities that the demand for coal for export and bunker purposes had outgrown the capacity of the loading plant. ©Roger de la Harpe. In 1907 the average time taken in transit from the coalfields to the port was 90 hours--nearly four days and nights !-but by 1917 the urgent necessities of a growing trade had reduced this to less than 5o hours. To admit that there is room for improvement in these respects is not for a moment to minimise the value of these great coaling appliances, whose erection completely revolutionised the coal business of Durban and may be said to have brought Port Natal at a single bound into the list of the world's recognised coal-exporting centres. A delegation lead by Piet Retief negotiated a contract with Zulu King Dingane granting them the land between Durban and the Tugela river to found a Boer Republic in Natal. It was founded by merchants from the Cape Colony under the leadership of Henry Francis Fynn, who had reached a contractual agreement with the mighty Zulu King Shaka authorising them to establish a trading station. The recollection may call a smile to many a countenance in Durban. Many families have produced their own genealogies and family histories. The history of Durban's early days is full of the efforts made to interest the outside world in the port's potentialities. From that time forth the output steadily increased, the quantity dealt with during 1908 being 600,000 tons, in the following year over 800,000 tons and in 1910 over a million tons. This one must leave to the wisdom of. Durban, in fact, has frequently been placed at a great disadvantage in relation to other exporting centres by the imposition of railway transport charges which have made it difficult, if not impossible, to compete for ships' business in the world-market. The practice of “declaring” particularly fine Vintage years was established, and 1851, 1863 and 1868 were highly regarded. R.M.S. The further improvement of the harbour entrance, for example. For the time being, and probably for many years to come, the industry's products must be brought hither from overseas in the huge tankers that find berthage alongside the oil sites, where a vast acreage of level land has been reclaimed from the waters of the Bay. It is situated near the mouth of the Potengi River on the Atlantic coast. On the whole money for port development in Durban has never been stinted by the Government. They sent troops to Durban, who were defeated in the Battle of Congella in 1842. From first to last the capital expenditure on the harbour has amounted to no less a sum than £5,500,000 sterling as against £3,130,000 for Capetown, £1,474,000 for East London, £1,326,500 for Port Elizabeth, and smaller items for Mossel Bay, Port Alfred and Walvis Bay. "Your Excellency has already had an opportunity of viewing the natural position of this port, and its capacious, secure, and landlocked harbour. Four-and-a-half million tons in a year ! In 1835 the town was … Durban disposes of extensive industrial areas and the biggest seaport in South Africa. In such matters as these, and in others that could be quoted, the premier port of South Africa certainly owes little gratitude to the powers that he. In 1844, Natal - with Durban - was incorporated into the British Cape Colony. the Küsel family). Does the average man ever take the trouble to visualise to himself what Durban would be without its coal trade ? Again there is no commonsense reason why Natal coal should he hauled all the way to Capetown for only a trifle more per ton than it is brought to Port Natal. It is a further evidence of a pre-vision of which I have already spoken that as long ago as 1888 the view was taken that a graving dock for Durban was urgently required ! the engineers. Here at Sheds " A " to " I " great passenger vessels and cargo steamers, big and little, find berthage -the large liners of the Aberdeen, White Star and P. & 0. lines usually at Shed A, the Mail steamships of the Union-Castle Company invariably at Shed B, and others, including vessels of shallower draught at other stations along the lengthy water-frontage that extends from the Harbour Entrance at the Point to that quiet corner of the Bay where Cato's Creek, a ditch so named in honour of the first Mayor of Durban, discharges a varying stream of storm-water from the hills surrounding the town. of Port Natal in its present stage of development. Of the 2.9 million newborn deaths that occurred in 2012, close to half of them occurred within the first 24 hours after birth. I don't recall who sent me the photocopy but I eventually had the opportunity to get the text into my computer with charactor recognition software. The time must surely come when a change of principle will he inaugurated, the Administration then charging merely a fair economic price per ton for railage to the coast instead of mulcting the coal industry, as it does at present, of the last possible penny that the colliery companies' selling prices will yield. | Contents | Diary Well, Durban in that respect is singularly British. Today, more than 4 million people live in the metropolitan area of Durban. In the matter of local expenditure for developments, all governments are proverbially slow to move. It was renamed in 1835 after the governor of the Cape Colony Sir Benjamin D'Urban. On the Bluff side many engineering marvels await us-the huge coaling appliances, the largest and most efficient in South Africa ; the oil station at Island View ; the slipways of the whaling industry, where the vast carcases of marine monsters are hauled ashore for the blubber that is in them. How to use postnatal in a sentence. A mole straddling across our picturesque Bay would menace the amenities of Durban's only boulevard, the pleasant Esplanade, and if the further proposition to provide new wharfage accommodation by constructing a series of jetties jutting out from the aforesaid mole, then the objections would be re-doubled, for it would be argued that the harbour area, with all the objectionable features inseparable from harbour activities, would be brought into too close proximity to the heart of the town. Sir William Raeburn, one of the world's great shipowners, not long ago made a tour of all the Union harbours and on returning to England told an interviewer that the harbour and docks at Durban were a revelation on to him. A temporary wooden slip at Salisbury Island was the first expedient. Around us, as we wend our way Pointwards, swarm the myriad activities of the harbour area-native dockers, chanting a dirge-like chorus as they labour ; " coalie " boys filling ships' bunkers from the quay ; the engines and goods trains of the Railways Administration puffing fussily to and fro ; great derricks and cranes in action ; ships loading or discharging, and here and there, in sharp contrast to all this feverish activity, an angler squatting placidly on the quayside, watching his bobbing float in the unquiet waters below ! They find fault, in turn, with every amenity and facility they possess, while knowing deep down in their hearts that they inhabit one ofthe finest towns of its size in the Southern Hemisphere and that the Port of Durban, for equipment and efficiency, and for the volume of trade that passes back and forth across its harbour bar, can quite comfortably challenge comparison with any port of the Continent of Africa. Port Natal Maritime Museum: History of Durban Shipping - See 46 traveler reviews, 67 candid photos, and great deals for Durban, South Africa, at Tripadvisor. Now Durban was set to become one of the most important seaports of the British Empire. Side by side with these great coaling activities at the Bluff an important oil and petrol industry is being developed. Stephens) and behind these the conning-tower of the Point Signal Station rears its head, while along the Point Road, where the municipal tram-cars ply backwards and forwards to Durban Town, are situate the offices of the principal shipping lines, shipping and forwarding agents and, lastly, in a prominent position near the Vasco da Gama Fountain, the offices of the Railways and Harbours Administration, where the Port Manager (Col. A. Herschell) spends busy days, and sometimes nights, in the supervision of the thousand-and-one details of the commerce of a great port. Your Excellency is aware that in ordinary circumstances vessels of from 300 to 400 tons can at present cross the bar ; and the General Screw Steam Company's ships, the Natal and the Cape of Good Hope, each of 700 tons, experience no difficulty, and scarcely ever any detention, in entering the harbour or departing from it. " It stirs sluggish Governments to action ; it keeps Harbour Boards up to concert pitch. He has some representative power for the Zulu people, but only under the government of South Africa. It is best to take, in imagination, a trip around the Bay-that picturesque Bay that has been transformed from a shallow lagoon to a fair, broad sheet of tidal water, traversed from point to point by navigable channels, and affording safe harbourage, if need be, for as many ships of size as would ever be likely to foregather in South African waters at one and the same time. The very first fact to engage his attention (one gathers from Sir George's report) was that the plant in use was all worked from the quay level as a base, and that no advantage had been taken of the hills at the back of the reclaimed area for the purpose of gravity loading. By the same token one might say that it was a difficult, if not an impossible task for the early settlers on the Natal coast to form any true conception of the great future that awaited Durban as a maritime centre. Natal (Brazilian Portuguese: ) is the capital and largest city of the state Rio Grande do Norte, located in northeastern Brazil.According to IBGE's July 2018 report, the city had a total population of 763,043, making it the 19th largest city in the country. There is evidence --plenty of it--that the future prosperity of the port was clearly foreseen by the Natal worthies of three quarters of a century ago. The coal is the same coal ; the haulage cost must n ecessarily he the same. By such stages did Durban arrive at a realisation of its dream of a great graving dock which should accommodate the largest vessels sailing the Southern Seas. Working back to the Point, where the waters of the Indian Ocean, tumbling over the harbour bar, lose their force in the shelter of the Bay, we may make choice of tug or launch or ferry-boat to carry us across to the Bluff. I trow not ; but in any history of Port Natal the fact must be acknowledged and recorded. The graving dock at Congella. Durban [ˈdœːbən] (zulu eThekwini [ˈɛːʔtʰɛˌkwinĭ], früher Port Natal) ist eine Großstadt am Indischen Ozean an der Ostküste Südafrikas. Das Amt eines Hafenmeisters ist seit 1840 besetzt. Just as the old Natal Government had a clear vision of the tremendous asset it possessed in the Port of Durban, so successive Union Governments from 1910 to the present time have recognised that this is the natural ocean gateway of South Africa for the conveyance of goods and produce to and from up-country destinations. Then, maybe, if conditions are favourable, a share of the product handled at Island View may he veritably the oil of the country brought to this well-equipped centre for dissemination throughout South Africa. The coal-owners by their energy and enterprise have assisted the growth of the port by contributing one of the most important branches of its commerce ; and it cannot be claimed that the Government Departments managing the national transport interests under, firstly, the old Natal Administration, and, secondly, the Union Government, have at any time gone out of their way to foster the coal business of the Garden Province by generosity and in the matter of railway rates. The data is for informational purposes only and VesselFinder is not responsible for the accuracy and reliability of NATAL data. Click to view enlargement. In the same year a party of Dutch farmers from the Uitenhage district visited Natal to evaluate its potential for farming. Oiltown," as the place has been nicknamed, is the birthplace of an industry whose importance to the Union and to Durban it would be difficult to overestimate. That was 36 years ago ; yet not until last year was the dock provided. This failing, a second slip was erected on the Bluff side of the Bay, but its wooden ways soon became weather-worn, and another and better site was selected at the town end of the main wharf. While in this neighbourhood one must give a thought to the Floating Dock that rides the waters of the Bay hard by Shed " I," for this marks one of the stages by which Durban temporarily satisfied the need that has now, at long last, been fully satisfied by the constructing of the great graving dock at Congella -the need, that is to say, for an adequate means of raising and overhauling local or visiting vessels in need of repair. Perhaps one can better realise the extent and the importance of the coaling industry by a reference to .the annual tonnages handled at the harbour. The Voortrekkers resorted to trekking further north and found a new home in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. In this matter the Administration has too often played the role of a stingy stepmother, lavish of profit to her own transport interests, while denying to her principal harbour the enormously increased traffic that would result from a more generous railage policy. To obtain such assistance elsewhere, however, proved to be a thing easier said than done. Little is known of the history of the first residents, as there is no written history of the area until it was sighted by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who sailed parallel to the KwaZulu-Natal coast at Christmastide in 1497 while searching for a route from Europe to India. In the first six months of actual working, that is June to December, 1907, the plant handled only 161,243 tons of coal. Time and again there were assaults and skirmishes by the Zulus, who - obviously - saw Natal as their tribal homeland and only tolerated the white settlers, because the town was of use to them as a trading station. Here a substantial wharf, built on reclaimed land, and in recent years much extended in length, affords firm footing for the leviathan coaling appliances, and a sure anchorage for the great vessels that come here to load Natal coal, either for export or for hunkering purposes. As long ago as 1855, the year following the elevation of Durban to the dignity of a borough, the inhabitants petitioned the then Governor of the Cape Colony, during his stay in the town, to champion the cause of the budding port in his despatches to the Home authorities. Completed in April, 1907, the first coaling plant erected at the Bluff was taken over provisionally by the Durban Harbour Board on the first of the following month, after certain necessary tests had been carried out. How shall one tell the full story of the growth of Port Natal in sequential form ? There is to-day abundant criticism of South Africa's premier commercial port, but this is mainly confined to points of detail. Click to view enlargement. The mammoth appetite of the appliances called for greater and speedier deliveries from the collieries, and thus port development led to a great speeding-up of the railway system. The area was also populated by the Zulu nation, and multiple skirmishes took place between the Zulu and settlers. Accompanying Farewell was an adventurer named Henry Fynn. Once in the long ago the Umgeni River forced for itself a new channel to the Bay at approximately this spot, temporarily converting the Eastern Vlei and the Point area into an island and obliging the municipality to inaugurate a ferry service-one of the very first of the municipal trading undertakings of the Borough. Click to view enlargement. There was no support or protection by the British government. "Unquestionably," said Sir William. " Information about Port of NATAL BRNAT departures and expected arrivals. It would seem that Durban, a town which in former days must need apply "elsewhere " for financial assistance, must nowadays look beyond its own borders for a complete appreciation of its own merits and advantages. In the main -the newspapers notwithstanding- the harbour has been developed on sane and salutary lines. Port Natal The first permanent European settlement in the history of Durban happened in 1824, when just over 20 British men established a colony where Farewell Square now stands. Here again Port Natal knew what it wanted but had to wait over long to get it. It is perhaps not too much to hope that some day oil in paying quantities may be " struck " in South Africa. The Story of Port Natal is taken from The Natal and Zululand Annual published 82 years ago on 25 December 1926. J. G. Maydon, for it was mainly due to that statesman's zeal and insistence that the extension of the harbour works in that portion of the Bay abutting on Albert Park was brought about. As a reserve unit, it had a status roughly equivalent to that of a present-day British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit. Vasco Da Gama was a Portuguese explorer and navigator who was commanded by King Emanuel in 1497 to lead a new expedition to find a new route to India by sea around Africa. Sir George Buchanan himself recognises this, and has suggested means whereby the working of the appliances as they stand could be rendered speedier and more economical. Natal, former province of South Africa. However, the Legislative Council of Natal, realising the urgency of the case, sanctioned a vote of £3,000 for the completion of the new slip, and this proved adequate, for the time being, to the harbour's needs. Eventually this dock-just as one sees it to-day, but for the fact that it has now lost a good deal of its lifting capacity after the work of years - was purchased, brought to Port Natal in the year 1904, and at its official trial answered the most sanguine anticipations by raising a vessel of 7,000 tons dead weight. Am 23. The plant, thus perfected, has worked with splendid results down to the present time. Family History. Indeed, it has often been said, and with no little truth, that Port Natal has not grown or prospered because of the Government, but in spite of it. Not for long, however, was such a makeshift acceptable at a port whose growth was like that of a vigorous sub-tropical plant, so that one could almost watch its steady expansion with the naked eye. I shall be forgiven, I hope, if I quote from it those portions which relate to Durban's development as a port of entry for the commerce of the Colony of Natal. A project has been started by Mr Walter Volker to collect all information available on the Natal German families and to incorporate it in a central database. It is mere justice to the Union Government, which is invariably blamed for everything that goes wrong, and seldom applauded for anything that goes right, to say that the importance of keeping our leading harbours abreast of modern requirements has always been kept steadily in view. Juni 1835 wurde die Siedlung zu Ehren von Benjamin D’Urban, der 1834 bis 1837 Gouverneur der Kapkolonie war, in D'Urban umbenannt. First then, the main wharf. Port Natal Maritime Museum: Interesting SA History - See 46 traveler reviews, 67 candid photos, and great deals for Durban, South Africa, at Tripadvisor. The NATAL Port information gathered by MarineTraffic includes, wind forecasts and real-time updates for vessels in the Port of NATAL. Away back in the early 80's there were suggestions put forward for the coaling of vessels by mechanical means. Extraordinarily high praise, this from a man from a man who has travelled the world, and whose personal position in regard to the vast shipping undertakings of Glasgow and the Clyde invests his utterances with special authority. The Port of Natal (Portuguese: Porto de Natal) is in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, on the Potengi River.It is the South American port closest to Europe. KwaZulu-Natal ( / kwɑːˌzuːluː nəˈtɑːl /, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province"; Zulu: iKwaZulu-Natali; Xhosa: KwaZulu-Natala; Afrikaans: KwaZoeloe-Natal) is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of … The Story of Port Natal is taken from The Natal and Zululand Annual published 82 years ago on 25 December 1926. The smaller steamships and sailing vessels, the harbour tugs and units of Durban's whaling fleet, all find entrance here and ready attention to their needs in the way of overhaul and renovation. The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. | Contact Us. Detailed information for Port of NATAL, BR NAT. Natal, city and port, capital of Rio Grande do Norte estado (state), northeastern Brazil. I tried my best to ensure that the text is totally accurate but you never know... Allan Jackson. Perhaps the day may dawn when Durban will awaken to a realisation that she has reclaimed too great an area of land and left too small an area of blue water for the ever-growing traffic of her harbour. | Orders | Site Search There, at the present time, ships of many nationalities and types -ships that sail under canvas as well as steam and motor vessels- call to discharge their cargoes of timber for the timber-yards, metals and plants for the engineering firms, raw materials of all descriptions for the many factories that are establishing themselves in Durban's recognised industrial area. It is now the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. A still more powerful equipment was needed. It was Earl Balfour, a great maker of phrases, who said that the British people take a gloomy joy in self-depreciation. The first stamps of Natal were issued on 26 May 1857. South African History – Natal South Africa – Vasco Da Gama . The beachfront is bordered by holiday accommodation and 5 Star Hotels and luxury apartments, all of which have an idyllic view of the Indian Ocean. Da Gama carefully studied reports written by explorer Bartholomew Dias and set sail with 4 ships in July 1497 and on Christmas day 1497 he reached what … NATAL current position and history of port calls are received by AIS. The " Congella Wharf," as erstwhile we called it, has been most fittingly re-named in honour of the late Hon. Here are the figures for each year from the time when the existing coaling appliances first got into their full stride :-. Im Jahre 1824 gründeten Briten an der Bucht von Natal eine feste Siedlung mit dem Namen Port of Natal. Meanwhile repeated makeshifts were requisitioned. "What is Wrong with the Harbour?" The harbour works now in progress have, undoubtedly, had some effect in scouring the sand bar, and thus deepening the entrance to the port ; but we beg to represent to Your Excellency that the ordinary colonial revenue is totally inadequate to supply the funds requisite for a vigorous and effective prosecution of these works ; and, therefore, that the great natural capabilities of Port Natal must depend for their development upon assistance obtained elsewhere.". It was known, even in the " nineties," that a graving dock must come, but, pending the time when the money should be available, practical Port Natal set itself the task of providing a floating " repair shop " capable of raising vessels of 4,500 tons, and even ships up to 5,500 tons and of 450 feet in length by the addition of 80 feet run of pontoon. Britton homeward bound. Then, shortly afterwards, Dingane had the entire delegation killed. Durban's seaport became the largest sugar terminal in the world. Only sporadically some pirates and ivory or slave dealers laid anchor, and it was much later, in the year 1824, that a proper settlement started, initially named "Port Natal". The Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama sighted the coast along what is now Durban on Christmas Day in 1497 and named the country Terra Natalis, after the Its people are tireless complainants. Called Port Natal initially, this settlement grew into the modern city that we know today as Durban. It was founded by merchants from the Cape Colony under the leadership of British Lieutenant F.G. Farewell. The dimensions and the capacity of the Prince Edward Dock, its huge caissons and its wonderful power station, have been so often and so recently detailed that it would be needless repetition to recount them anew. There is, after all, no real reason-apart from the fact that other Governments pursue the same policy-that the Administration should differentiate between the railage rates on coal destined for export and bunker use respectively. By mid century Port was firmly established as a good wine, and trade flourished, production reaching 100,000 pipes for the first time in the 1840’s. European settlement began with a band of Cape Colony traders led by Francis G. Farewell, who charted the port in … Durban is blessed with humid weather and a warm current in the Ocean, making it a perfect holiday paradise. Subsequently the Afrikaners founded their Republic "Natalia" and laid claim on Durban, which, however, met with strong resistance from the British. It was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia, and on 31 May 1910 combined with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, as one of its provinces. 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