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eventREF E-0012188Revised

8 March 1973

Maritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened

Maritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened

Updated
30 Sep 2019
Maritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened

Prime Minister B.J. Vorster officially opened the South African Navy's R15m Maritime Operational and Communications Headquarters at Silvermine, West Lake, near Simonstown, Cape Peninsula. The modern Advokaat naval communications system at the base, from where the operational command and control of maritime forces was exercised, was constructed by the South African Defence Force with the help of several West German companies.

How we know this

  1. 01Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Maritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012188

South African History Online (2011) 'Maritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012188 (Accessed: 8 October 2026).

South African History Online, Maritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012188, (accessed 8 October 2026).

"Maritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012188. Accessed 8 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Maritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012188.

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