Some wrecks come with a grand title, a tragic story and enough paperwork to keep a maritime historian quietly twitching for a week. Then there’s the Varne Wreck.It’s called the…
SS Cuvier was carrying cargo for Brazil when SS Dovre tore into her near the Dover Strait in 1900. Within five minutes she had gone, leaving three survivors clinging to a capsized boat and at least 26 men lost in one of the Channel's sharpest civilian wreck tragedies.
Her career was brutally short. On 28 November 1864, Mindora collided in the English Channel with the Khersonese, another outward-bound sailing ship, reportedly on passage from London to Calcutta. Contemporary shipwreck listings place the collision about 8 nautical miles south-west by west of South Foreland, with Mindora sinking and the other vessel abandoned in a sinking condition. For divers, this is a proper Victorian mystery wreck: a young barque lost almost as soon as her story began, a collision in one of the world’s busiest sea lanes, and a seabed site that still gives up small clues from a long-vanished age of sail.
Join Chris and the crew at Cullins Yard for a relaxed evening of food, drink and proper good company. Mutiny Diving is sponsoring the buffet, so there will be plenty…
There are places that suit a conversation before a word is spoken. Cullins Yard is one of them. Tucked beside Dover Marina in an old converted shipyard, it is a…
PRESS RELEASE New "Flavour-Coded Deco Gas" System Aims to Enhance Technical Diving Safety 1st April 2026 A new patent-pending diver safety concept is set to attract attention in the technical…
Dive This Wreck Lying around 5 miles south of Dover, the wrecks of SS Laristan and SV Denbighshire form one of the Channel’s more unusual dive sites. Two vessels, lost…
Dive This Wreck HMT Étoile Polaire had a short and brutal career. She was built by J. T. Eltringham & Co. at Willington Quay, yard number 308, launched on 4…
Dive This Wreck In 1864, the three-masted British barque Mindora met her end in the English Channel, one of the busiest and most unforgiving stretches of water in the world.She…
