Naval Infrastructure - as of the end of 1914
Total capacity is:
S4: 2 D4: 2
S3: 0 D3: 0
S2: 3 D2: 5
S1: 3 D2: 5
S0: 8 D0: 5
Kaapstad Harbor Level 4
this includes both Kaapstad and Simonshafn (Simon's Town)
Large shipbuilding/breaking capacity, although far from the industrial heartland. Main boneyard (reserve vessels base)
S4 S2 S1 S0
D4 D2 D1
Durban Harbor level 5
The main naval base
S4 S2 S1 S0
D4 D2 D1 D0
Elisabethafn (Porth Elizabeth) 2
Main submarine building base, able to repair large navy vessels and small liners
S2 S0 S0
D2 D0
Oos-London 1
S1 S0
D1
Port Nolloth 2
300nm N of Kaapstad, a huge restricted access naval area, for all operations requiring minimal public exposure. Also naval gunnery range.
D2 D1
Loanda 1
S0
D0
Beira 2
D2
D0
S0
Normannhafn 0
The main Zambian harbor for loading copper
Walvisbaai 0
There's also a commercial harbor at Swakopmund, on the ahistorical Swakop river, the "Nile of South Africa"
Swiss Tortugas (Chagos Islands) 0
Orange Chuvosa Island 0
coaling station in the middle of the South Atlantic
Prince Edwards Islands 0
Coaling station and prison island
Lorenco Marques 0 (finished 1910 H1)
Former colonial capital for Portuguese Mozambique, preferred over Rijkardsbaai as a second commercial harbor of the heartland, being already connected to the national rail network.
Other notable anchorages
Keeling Island
Christmas Island
Benguela/Lobito
Second largest Angolan population center
Lüderitz
A shallow natural harbor on the desolate Namib coast, almost in the middle of 400nm mostly uninhabited coastline from Port Nolloth to Waalvisbaai
Mosselbaai
halfway between Kaapstad and Elisabethafn, in the sparsely populated Kaap mountains
Great Fish Bay
Huge natural deepwater harbor, unfortunately without significant freshwater sources. No other deepwater harbor from Waalvisbaai to Benguela for 500 nm.
Rijkardsbaai
Another natural bay NE of Durban