Graptolite - Slave Trading

Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Wed 22 Apr 2009 19:02
19:06.46N 037:20.26E Suakin, Sudan

We had a careful sail through the reefs in the very poorly charted Shubuk
Channel along the coast and arrived at Suakin this afternoon. Suakin is a
sort of port but got eclipsed in the porty business by Port Sudan many years
ago and it is now pretty much a crumbling ghost town.

The 'old town' on an island in the middle of the harbour is a spectacular
deserted ruin. The claim to fame for this place is that it was the last
slave trading market in the world and was busy up to the end of WWII.

We have our shore passes and will explore tomorrow.

M