Port Beaufort is a settlement in Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

He came from London to South Africa in 1819 and quickly saw that it was easier to transport goods by sea between Cape Town and the Overberg.

Barry immediately built a harbour on the north shore of the Breede River, which became Port Beaufort.

Once boats crossed the sandbank by the mouth of the river, they could travel 40 km upriver to Malgas,[3] where Barry also built a wharf and warehouse.

After several ships sank near the mouth of the river and lost their cargo, Barry commissioned the construction in Scotland of a 150-ton steamship called the Kadie, which proceeded to successfully navigate the estuary for six years, until November 17, 1865, when it too foundered on the rocks on the southern shore.