The Madagascar was a ship of the Rennie line[2] that was lost in 1858 after it hit a reef near the mouth of the Birha River, south of East London, in South Africa, around midnight on 3 December.
Attempts to keep the ship afloat failed and it was run aground on the 4th and broke up.
There were no deaths.
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