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SUMMARY:SS Carmen (1963)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Carmen was a Panamanian steam cargo vessel\, originally built of steel at Sunderland by William Doxford & Sons Ltd. Historic England records conflicting build dates of 1920 and 1930\, but her recovered bell is engraved “IRON CHIEF 1930 SYDNEY”\, showing her earlier identity before later names including Stagpool\, Granny Suzanne\, and finally Carmen. She was a substantial freighter of about 112.9 metres long\, 16.1 metres in beam\, and around 4\,240 gross tons\, powered by a triple-expansion steam engine. On her final voyage she was carrying bauxite from Takoradi\, Ghana\, to Burntisland. Not glamorous cargo\, admittedly\, but bauxite has better wreck appeal than another dreary hold full of ballast and disappointment. \nOn 13 June 1963\, Carmen was caught in thick fog in the Dover Strait and collided with the Turkish steamship Sadikzade\, about 4.5 miles east of the South West Goodwin light buoy and 9.6 miles east of St Margaret’s Bay. She sank with the loss of two crewmen\, while the collision set off an absurdly grim chain reaction: Sadikzade then collided with the Greek motor vessel Leandros\, which in turn collided with the British tanker Clyde Sergeant. Today\, Carmen lies upright and largely intact in around 44 to 45 metres\, with her funnel around 30 metres and superstructure rising into the low 30s. For divers\, she is a superb deeper Channel wreck: intact\, dramatic\, well identified\, and carrying the unmistakable scar of a fog-bound collision in one of the busiest seaways on Earth.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-carmen-1963/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260606T113000
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DTSTAMP:20260605T145542
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162812Z
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SUMMARY:SS Amplegarth (1918)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Amplegarth began life as SS Denewell\, a British steel screw cargo steamer built in 1910 by William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd of Southwick\, Sunderland. She was launched on 23 August 1910\, completed that September\, and measured about 106.2 metres long\, with a 15.3 metre beam and 7.2 metre depth\, at 3\,707 gross tons. By 1915 she had become Amplegarth\, registered at Cardiff under the Ampleforth Steamship Co. Ltd\, before later passing to Canute Steamship Co. Ltd. A solid coal-carrying steamer\, then. No ballroom\, no grand staircase\, no nonsense. The Channel rarely asks for glamour before it ruins your day. \nOn 10 May 1918\, Amplegarth was on passage from Dunston-on-Tyne to St Nazaire with a cargo of coal when she struck a mine laid by the German minelaying submarine UC-71\, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Walter Warzecha. She sank about 1 mile west-south-west of Dover Harbour. The best Cardiff shipping summary I found records no lives lost\, which is a blessedly rare line in a First World War wreck note. For divers\, this is a proper Dover war wreck: a big merchant steamer\, a working cargo\, a UC-boat minefield\, and a loss right on the doorstep of one of the busiest wartime ports in Britain.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-amplegarth-1918/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260607T060000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260607T060000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145542
CREATED:20260426T104654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162842Z
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SUMMARY:SS Cuvier (1900)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Cuvier was an iron screw cargo steamer built in 1883 by A. Leslie & Co.\, recorded as built at Newcastle-upon-Tyne / Hebburn. She was fitted with a two-cylinder compound engine\, two boilers\, and carried official number 87903. Sources disagree slightly on her tonnage\, with one contemporary report giving 2\,299 gross tons\, while local wreck summaries often round her to about 2\,000 tons. At the time of her loss she was on passage from Antwerp to Bahia\, Brazil\, with a general cargo that included bagged cement\, lead ingots and crockery. Not exactly treasure\, but crockery on a wreck always adds a certain dinner-service drama\, because apparently even the seabed needs plates. \nOn 9 March 1900\, Cuvier was struck on the starboard side in the Dover Strait by the Norwegian steamer Dovre\, which was bound from Burntisland to Dieppe with coal. The collision tore open her side\, flooded the engine room\, and she sank in minutes\, around 6 miles east of the East Goodwin Lightvessel. Historic England records heavy loss of life\, with sources giving 26 to 28 crew lost and only a handful of survivors picked up by the steamer Windsor. For divers\, Cuvier is a classic Goodwins-area wreck: a Victorian cargo steamer\, a sudden night collision\, a grim human story\, and a site known for recovered Maastricht-marked bowls\, mugs\, chamber pots\, portholes and crockery. It’s the kind of wreck where the artefacts make the story feel oddly domestic\, which somehow makes the tragedy hit harder.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-cuvier-1900/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260607T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260607T123000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145542
CREATED:20260426T104655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162901Z
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SUMMARY:SS Efford – Stern (1940)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Efford was a small British coastal cargo steamer\, built in 1905 by Dublin Dockyard Co. and later owned by Efford Shipping Co. Ltd of London. Wrecksite records her official number as 107004 and gives her at 339 GRT\, although some wartime loss summaries list her as 393 GRT\, so I’d keep the wording as “small coastal steamer” unless you want to start a tonnage punch-up in the clubhouse. On 22 May 1940\, in the chaos of the Channel during the German advance through France\, she was off Dover when she collided with the French steamer Tlemcen. \nEfford sank after the collision\, reportedly cut in two\, and her remains are known as two separated wreck sections off Dover. That makes her an especially interesting dive: not a grand liner or warship\, but a compact coaster with a dramatic physical story written into the seabed. For divers\, Efford offers exactly the sort of Channel wreck that rewards close inspection: broken structure\, wartime context\, collision damage\, and the odd thrill of knowing the bow and stern are not necessarily where polite naval architecture intended them to be.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-efford-stern-1940/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260608T070000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260608T070000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T163129Z
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SUMMARY:HMS Flirt (1916)
DESCRIPTION:HMS Flirt was a Royal Navy three-funnel\, 30-knot destroyer\, later grouped into the C-class\, built by Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd at Jarrow-on-Tyne. Laid down in 1896\, launched in 1897 and completed in 1899\, she was an older but fast destroyer of about 67 metres long\, with a 6.1 metre beam and a draught of roughly 2.7 metres. Her armament included a 12-pounder gun\, five 6-pounders and two 18-inch torpedo tubes. By 1916 she was serving with the Dover Patrol\, guarding the Dover Barrage and the drifters that maintained its anti-submarine nets. Small ship\, big job\, because the Admiralty did love sending lightly built destroyers into the Channel’s worst evenings. \nOn the night of 26-27 October 1916\, during the First Battle of the Dover Strait\, German torpedo boats raided the barrage. Flirt went to investigate gunfire and found the drifter Waveney II burning. She lowered a boat to help survivors\, then challenged approaching vessels in the darkness\, believing them possibly friendly. They were not. German destroyers opened fire at close range\, and HMS Flirt was sunk with heavy loss of life. Sources commonly record three officers\, including her commanding officer Lieutenant A. Swainson\, and more than 50 ratings killed or missing\, with the only survivors being those already away in the rescue boat. For divers\, Flirt is one of Dover’s most poignant war wrecks: a rescue attempt\, a night action\, and a little destroyer overwhelmed while doing exactly what she had been sent there to do.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hms-flirt-1916/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260609T073000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260609T073000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145542
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260602T144658Z
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SUMMARY:MV Andaman (1953)
DESCRIPTION:The MV Andaman was a Swedish motor cargo vessel built in 1947 by A/B Götaverken of Gothenburg for A/B Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet\, the Swedish East Asiatic Company. She was a modern post-war cargo ship of about 4\,765 tons\, measuring roughly 134 metres long\, with a beam of about 17.8 metres\, powered by oil engines. On her final voyage she was bound from Gothenburg to Calcutta\, a long-haul trade route cut short in the thick fog of the Dover Strait\, because the Channel has always treated visibility as an optional extra. \nOn 24 May 1953\, Andaman collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune about 3 miles south of the South Goodwin Lightvessel. She began sinking\, and her 38 crew abandoned ship into two boats. The Dover lifeboat launched\, but the crew had already been picked up by the SS Arthur Wright\, before being transferred to the lifeboat and landed at Dover. No lives were lost. For divers\, Andaman is a fine post-war Channel wreck: a substantial Swedish cargo ship\, lost in fog near the Goodwins\, with a clean rescue story and enough size\, structure and atmosphere to make her far more than a name on a chart.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/mv-andaman-1953/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260610T081500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260610T081500
DTSTAMP:20260605T145542
CREATED:20260426T121816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T163215Z
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SUMMARY:SS Cuvier (1900)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Cuvier was an iron screw cargo steamer built in 1883 by A. Leslie & Co.\, recorded as built at Newcastle-upon-Tyne / Hebburn. She was fitted with a two-cylinder compound engine\, two boilers\, and carried official number 87903. Sources disagree slightly on her tonnage\, with one contemporary report giving 2\,299 gross tons\, while local wreck summaries often round her to about 2\,000 tons. At the time of her loss she was on passage from Antwerp to Bahia\, Brazil\, with a general cargo that included bagged cement\, lead ingots and crockery. Not exactly treasure\, but crockery on a wreck always adds a certain dinner-service drama\, because apparently even the seabed needs plates. \nOn 9 March 1900\, Cuvier was struck on the starboard side in the Dover Strait by the Norwegian steamer Dovre\, which was bound from Burntisland to Dieppe with coal. The collision tore open her side\, flooded the engine room\, and she sank in minutes\, around 6 miles east of the East Goodwin Lightvessel. Historic England records heavy loss of life\, with sources giving 26 to 28 crew lost and only a handful of survivors picked up by the steamer Windsor. For divers\, Cuvier is a classic Goodwins-area wreck: a Victorian cargo steamer\, a sudden night collision\, a grim human story\, and a site known for recovered Maastricht-marked bowls\, mugs\, chamber pots\, portholes and crockery. It’s the kind of wreck where the artefacts make the story feel oddly domestic\, which somehow makes the tragedy hit harder.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-cuvier-1900-2/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T090000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145542
CREATED:20260426T122319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T164158Z
UID:10000111-1781168400-1781168400@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:Unidentified Wreck – Offshore
DESCRIPTION:Some wrecks come with a name\, a date\, a cargo list and a tidy little story. These do not. These are the unknown marks\, the offshore shadows\, the lumps of steel\, timber and machinery that sit on the seabed with their history still locked inside them. They might be a forgotten collier\, a wartime casualty\, a sailing vessel\, a trawler\, a barge\, a steamer\, or something nobody expected to find there at all. That is the pull of an unidentified wreck: you are not visiting a museum label. You are stepping into the investigation. \nThese dives are for curious divers who like a bit of mystery with their slack water. The wreck may have been rarely dived\, poorly recorded\, misidentified\, or never properly explored. There may be no neat answer waiting on the shotline\, which is half the fun and also the reason humans keep buying expensive torches and calling it a hobby. Look for clues: boilers\, engines\, winches\, cargo\, crockery\, ballast\, armament\, construction details\, anything that might help bring a lost name back from the seabed. You are not booking a routine wreck dive. You are joining a proper offshore puzzle\, and the next clue might be yours.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/unidentified-wreck-offshore-4/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://mutinydiving.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Offshore.jpg-OD8Ze0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260612T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260612T090000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145542
CREATED:20260426T122345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T164154Z
UID:10000112-1781254800-1781254800@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:Unidentified Wreck – Offshore
DESCRIPTION:Some wrecks come with a name\, a date\, a cargo list and a tidy little story. These do not. These are the unknown marks\, the offshore shadows\, the lumps of steel\, timber and machinery that sit on the seabed with their history still locked inside them. They might be a forgotten collier\, a wartime casualty\, a sailing vessel\, a trawler\, a barge\, a steamer\, or something nobody expected to find there at all. That is the pull of an unidentified wreck: you are not visiting a museum label. You are stepping into the investigation. \nThese dives are for curious divers who like a bit of mystery with their slack water. The wreck may have been rarely dived\, poorly recorded\, misidentified\, or never properly explored. There may be no neat answer waiting on the shotline\, which is half the fun and also the reason humans keep buying expensive torches and calling it a hobby. Look for clues: boilers\, engines\, winches\, cargo\, crockery\, ballast\, armament\, construction details\, anything that might help bring a lost name back from the seabed. You are not booking a routine wreck dive. You are joining a proper offshore puzzle\, and the next clue might be yours.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/unidentified-wreck-offshore-5/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260612T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260612T200000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145542
CREATED:20260426T104659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260602T143414Z
UID:10000101-1781294400-1781294400@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:Cullins Buffet Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Kick off the weekend with Chris and the crew at Cullins Yard\, Dover\, before the sea takes centre stage. Join us for an evening of good food\, cold drinks\, proper company\, and the kind of wreck-diving chat that only makes sense to people who willingly disappear beneath the English Channel for fun. Swap sea stories\, plan the weekend ahead\, and enjoy a relaxed night among fellow divers overlooking the marina. \nHosted by Mutiny Diving\, the buffet is completely free. Bring your appetite\, enjoy the company\, and if you’re able\, consider making a donation to the RNLI\, because while we enjoy exploring the sea’s history\, someone still has to come and rescue us from our own questionable decisions.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/cullins-buffet-dinner/
LOCATION:Cullins Yard\, 11 Cambridge Road\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9BY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Social
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260613T063000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260613T063000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145542
CREATED:20260426T121923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T163244Z
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SUMMARY:SV Mindora (1864)
DESCRIPTION:The Mindora was a British three-masted barque\, reportedly constructed in August 1864 and measuring about 41.5 metres long. She was a newly built sailing vessel\, bound outward from London to Victoria\, British Columbia\, carrying passengers and what contemporary reports describe as a valuable general cargo. That phrase does a lot of heavy lifting\, as Victorian shipping reports often preferred suspense over inventory\, presumably to torment future wreck researchers for sport. Local dive accounts place the wreck in the 30 to 32 metre range off Dover. \nHer 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.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/sv-mindora-1864-2/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260613T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260613T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
CREATED:20260426T104709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T163307Z
UID:10000102-1781352000-1781352000@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:HMT Étoile Polaire (1915)
DESCRIPTION:HMT Étoile Polaire was a steel-hulled Admiralty trawler built in 1915 by J. T. Eltringham & Co.\, at Willington Quay. She was a small but purposeful vessel of 278 tons\, originally built for Rémy & Huret of Boulogne\, although her exact owner at the time of loss seems a little uncertain. Hired into Admiralty service in 1915\, she joined the Dover Patrol’s dangerous minesweeping and patrol work around the Goodwins\, where small trawlers were asked to do large and lethal jobs. Admiralty optimism really was something to behold. \nOn 3 December 1915\, Étoile Polaire struck a mine and sank off the South Goodwins. The minefield is recorded as having been laid by the German minelaying submarine UC-1\, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Egon von Werner. Her wreck has had a confusing afterlife: Canterbury Divers and Historic England both note that a site once listed as HMT Cayton Wyke was positively identified as Étoile Polaire when her bell was recovered. The wreck lies in about 27 metres\, stands up to 5 metres proud\, and is described as fairly intact\, with a blown-off bow\, open holds\, intact stern and surviving superstructure. For divers\, this is a cracking Dover Patrol wreck: compact\, atmospheric\, strongly identified\, and close enough to the Goodwins to add that little pinch of “this place has been eating ships for centuries”.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-etoile-polaire-1915/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260614T070000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260614T070000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
CREATED:20260426T104710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T163328Z
UID:10000103-1781420400-1781420400@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:SS Laristan (1899) & SS Denbighshire (1887)
DESCRIPTION:This is a lovely little double-header for a dive listing\, mostly because the two wrecks sit so close together that identity confusion was almost inevitable. SS Laristan was the younger of the pair\, a British cargo steamer built in 1896 at Gray’s Yard\, Hartlepool\, owned by the Anglo-Algerian Steamship Co. On 22 October 1899\, she was carrying iron ore from Bona to Rotterdam when she collided off the Goodwins with the SS Crimea of Cardiff. Her crew of 23 stayed with her for a time as she settled head-down\, stern still showing\, before an internal air-pressure explosion sent her under. No polite little sinking here\, then. Even the final act had drama. \nClose beside her lies the older Denbighshire\, lost in 1887 and later identified by her recovered bell. Historic England notes her wreck lies close to Laristan\, while Canterbury Divers describes the Denbighshire as sitting only about 10 metres from the bigger Laristan\, in a maximum depth of about 31 metres\, standing around 5 metres proud. For divers\, the appeal is obvious: two Victorian wreck stories in one dive\, one a cargo steamer loaded with iron ore\, the other an earlier casualty close enough to turn the seabed into a historical puzzle. It is a cracking Dover site for anyone who likes machinery\, structure and a little identity intrigue with their slack water.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-laristan-1899-ss-denbighshire-1887/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260614T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260614T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
CREATED:20260426T122029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T163350Z
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SUMMARY:SS Loanda (1908)
DESCRIPTION:The wreck divers know as SS Loanda was an Elder Dempster Line steamer\, built in 1891\, not 1906\, so the date in brackets looks like it may need checking before it goes live. She was a 2\,702-ton steamship\, powered by triple-expansion engines\, and measured about 100 metres long by 12 metres wide. On her final voyage she was travelling from Hamburg to West Africa when she collided with the Russian steamer Junona off the Kent coast. The impact badly damaged her port side near the engine room\, and although an attempt was made to save her\, she sank under tow on 31 May 1908. Because apparently even being rescued wasn’t enough to stop the Channel having the last word. \nFor divers\, Loanda is one of those wrecks that rewards curiosity as much as good buoyancy. She lies upright in roughly 17 to 23 metres\, standing several metres proud\, with exposed engine remains\, an intact propeller\, and a cargo story worthy of a Victorian dockside whisper. Reports mention gin and champagne bottles\, clay pipes\, perfume bottles\, trading beads\, and the persistent tale of newly minted shillings\, although the shilling story is not supported by the manifest. It’s shallow\, atmospheric\, artifact-rich and very much a slack-water dive\, the kind of Dover wreck where every broken bottle and clay pipe feels like it has been waiting 116 years to be noticed.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-loanda-1906-8/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260619T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260619T093000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
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SUMMARY:Unidentified Wreck - Offshore
DESCRIPTION:Some wrecks come with a name\, a date\, a cargo list and a tidy little story. These do not. These are the unknown marks\, the offshore shadows\, the lumps of steel\, timber and machinery that sit on the seabed with their history still locked inside them. They might be a forgotten collier\, a wartime casualty\, a sailing vessel\, a trawler\, a barge\, a steamer\, or something nobody expected to find there at all. That is the pull of an unidentified wreck: you are not visiting a museum label. You are stepping into the investigation. \nThese dives are for curious divers who like a bit of mystery with their slack water. The wreck may have been rarely dived\, poorly recorded\, misidentified\, or never properly explored. There may be no neat answer waiting on the shotline\, which is half the fun and also the reason humans keep buying expensive torches and calling it a hobby. Look for clues: boilers\, engines\, winches\, cargo\, crockery\, ballast\, armament\, construction details\, anything that might help bring a lost name back from the seabed. You are not booking a routine wreck dive. You are joining a proper offshore puzzle\, and the next clue might be yours.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/unidentified-wreck-offshore-2/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260620T060000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260620T060000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
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SUMMARY:SS Maine (1914)
DESCRIPTION:The wreck known locally as the Perrier Wreck is believed to be the small steel steam coaster SS Maine\, lost off Dover on 2 April 1914 after a collision with the Spanish vessel José de Aramburu. She should not be confused with the larger and better-known SS Maine sunk off Devon in 1917. This Maine was a much smaller coastal cargo steamer\, recorded in local wreck references as a 439 GRT steel vessel\, around 50.5 m long with a beam of about 7.4 m\, built in 1900. \nHer final voyage ended near the Dover harbour approaches\, with the UKHO holding a 1914 record titled “Sinking of SS ‘Maine’ off Knuckle Light. Detached mole\, Dover harbour.” The recorded cause of loss was collision. Contemporary shipwreck summaries state that Maine collided with José de Aramburu in the English Channel and sank\, with her crew rescued by the Spanish vessel. No deaths are currently recorded in the accessible casualty summaries\, so this appears to have been a material loss rather than a fatal sinking. \nThe wreck’s local name comes from the cargo remains rather than the ship’s official identity. Divers know the site as the Perrier Wreck because of the bottles found across the wreckage\, including embossed bottles associated with Perrier and “Eaux Artificielles”. I have not yet found a formal cargo manifest\, so the safest wording is that bottled water formed an identifiable part of the cargo remains on the seabed\, rather than claiming a fully documented cargo of Perrier unless further archive material confirms it. \nFor divers\, that gives the site a neat little story. This is not a dramatic wartime torpedoing or a naval battle site. It is a pre-war Channel collision wreck\, sitting in one of the busiest and most awkward stretches of water in Britain. Its interest lies in the combination of Dover shipping history\, early twentieth-century coastal trade\, collision loss\, and the surviving artefact trail left by its cargo. It is a wreck where a modest coaster\, a navigation accident\, and a cargo of bottled water somehow created one of Dover’s more memorable local dive names.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-maine-1914/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260620T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260620T120000
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SUMMARY:HMT Falmouth III – FY152 (1915)
DESCRIPTION:By 1915\, she had entered Admiralty service as HMT Falmouth III\, Admiralty number FY152\, working with the Dover Patrol. Her job was minesweeping\, one of the most necessary and least forgiving jobs in the Channel. The Dover Strait was a vital wartime route\, but it was also a killing ground of mines\, submarines\, patrol craft\, hospital ships and merchant vessels trying to survive the shortest crossing between Britain and the Continent. \nOn the night of 16/17 November 1915\, German minelaying submarine UC-5\, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Herbert Pustkuchen\, laid mines near the Dover harbour approaches. On 17 November\, that same minefield sank HMHS Anglia\, a hospital ship carrying wounded men back from France\, and also sank the collier SS Lusitania\, which had gone to assist. Two days later\, on 19 November 1915\, Falmouth III struck one of the remaining mines while engaged in minesweeping duties. \nThe explosion was catastrophic. Contemporary and later accounts describe the trawler as being blown in half. She apparently sank directly onto the wreck of HMHS Anglia\, lying there for several days before a gale dislodged her. Wessex Archaeology records that a wreck possibly identified as Falmouth III lies around 1.4 km south-south-east of Anglia\, which fits the account of her being shifted after sinking. \nSeven men died in the loss: William Henry Abbott\, William Edward Fitzgerald\, John Harvey\, John Martin\, James Alexander McIntosh\, Arthur Midgley and Frederick Charles Wignall. Several are commemorated on naval memorials\, while others lie in marked graves at Milford Haven\, Dover and Noordwijk in the Netherlands. Lieutenant H. Beedle\, the commanding officer\, survived after reportedly going down with the vessel and returning to the surface. \nThis is a small wreck with a large story. Falmouth III was not a grand warship. She was a working trawler turned minesweeper\, doing brutal\, practical work in one of the most dangerous stretches of water in Britain. Her loss links directly to UC-5’s Dover minefield\, the sinking of HMHS Anglia\, and the wider story of the Dover Patrol’s daily fight to keep the Channel open.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-falmouth-iii-fy152-1915/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260621T063000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260621T063000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
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SUMMARY:HMT Lydian – 162 (1915)
DESCRIPTION:HMT Lydian\, Admiralty No. 162\, began life as the Milford Haven fishing trawler FV Lydian\, registered as M232. Built in Aberdeen in 1908 by John Duthie / Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co.\, she was a steel steam trawler of about 244 gross tons\, measuring roughly 36.7 m long with a beam of 6.8 m. Before the war she worked as a civilian fishing vessel under the ownership of S. A. Laycock & Co. of Milford Haven. \nDuring the First World War\, Lydian was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted for naval service. Like many former fishing trawlers\, she was well suited to hard\, practical work close to shore. These vessels became patrol boats\, escort vessels and minesweepers\, doing essential work in waters made increasingly dangerous by German submarines and minefields. Lydian’s Admiralty number was 162\, and by September 1915 she was serving off the Kent coast. \nOn 18 September 1915\, Lydian struck a German mine off South Foreland\, near Dover. Historic England identifies the mine as one laid by UC-6\, a German Type UC I minelaying submarine commanded by Kapitänleutnant Matthias Graf von Schmettow. The loss came during a period when UC-boats were laying mines across British coastal routes\, including the Dover Strait\, Harwich and Yarmouth areas. These small submarines did not need to surface and fight. They laid their mines\, left\, and let the Channel do the killing later. \nThe explosion sank Lydian with the loss of eight men. Known casualties include William Charles Crisp\, David Thomas Job\, James Charles Phillips\, Ernest Albert Edward Littlewood\, William MacLeod\, George More\, Edward Ernest Pawley and Philip Eric Wilson. Their backgrounds reflect the human geography of wartime trawler service: Milford Haven\, Halesworth\, Wick\, Stornoway connections\, naval reservists\, fishermen\, engineers\, seamen and signalmen pulled into the machinery of war. \nThe wreck lies about 3.2 km east of South Foreland in around 23 to 24 m of water. Historic England records the site as positively identified\, lying roughly NW/SE\, with a charted wreck area of about 50 m x 15 m. Artefacts recovered from the wreck include a bell\, portholes\, an engine-room plate\, a lamp and a door light. These finds helped confirm the wreck’s identity and give the site a stronger historical footing than many anonymous Channel marks. \nFor divers\, HMT Lydian is a classic Dover Patrol wreck: small\, workmanlike\, heavily tied to the mine warfare story of the Dover Strait\, and lost in the dangerous coastal zone below South Foreland. She was not a grand warship\, but her loss says a great deal about the war at sea in 1915. The Channel was not only a route to France. It was a battlefield\, and trawlers like Lydian paid the price for keeping it open.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-lydian-162-1915/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260621T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260621T133000
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SUMMARY:SS Lusitania (1915)
DESCRIPTION:SS Lusitania: the forgotten Lusitania off Folkestone\nMost people hear “Lusitania” and think of the Cunard liner torpedoed off Ireland in May 1915. However\, Kent has its own Lusitania story. Six months after the famous RMS Lusitania sank\, the smaller British steamship SS Lusitania was lost off Folkestone during one of the most tragic rescue scenes in the Dover Strait. \nSS Lusitania was a British steam cargo vessel built at Blyth\, Northumberland\, by Blyth Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Most wreck records give her build year as 1903\, although one Lloyd’s Register Foundation catalogue entry appears to list 1902. Her precise launch date needs further confirmation from primary ship registers. At the time of her loss\, she belonged to J. Hall\, Jun. & Co. of London and was travelling from London to Cadiz with a general cargo. \nThe minefield off Folkestone Gate\nOn 17 November 1915\, the Dover Strait sat at the centre of Britain’s coastal war. German U-boats had begun using the narrow waters off Kent to lay mines\, disrupt traffic and threaten the vital cross-Channel routes. One of those submarines was UC-5\, a German coastal minelayer. During the night of 16 to 17 November\, UC-5 laid mines near Folkestone Gate\, a controlled passage through the defensive system near Dover. \nThat minefield first claimed HMHS Anglia\, a hospital ship returning from Boulogne to Dover with wounded soldiers\, medical staff and crew. Anglia struck a mine at about 12.30 pm\, roughly one mile east of Folkestone Gate. The explosion hit forward on the port side\, and the ship began to sink quickly by the bow. Reports differ on exact numbers\, but the loss took about 10 to 20 minutes and killed around 164 people. \nLusitania goes to the rescue\nSS Lusitania was nearby when Anglia struck the mine. Rather than stand off\, she moved in to help. Her crew lowered two rescue boats and began picking up survivors from the hospital ship. In doing so\, Lusitania became part of Anglia’s rescue effort\, alongside vessels including HMS Ure\, HMS Hazard\, HM Torpedo Boat No. 4\, Langton and SS Channel Queen. \nThen the rescue turned into a second disaster. While recovering survivors\, SS Lusitania also struck a mine and sank. Some of those pulled from Anglia’s wreck had to be rescued again after Lusitania went down. The detail gives this wreck its particular weight: Lusitania was not lost while fleeing danger\, but while moving towards it to save others. \nCasualties and survival\nUnlike the hospital ship Anglia\, SS Lusitania appears to have lost none of her own crew. The Maritime Archaeology Trust gives her crew as approximately 25\, all of whom survived. It also records that the last person to leave the ship was 14-year-old Assistant Steward Herbert Scott. \nThe wider disaster\, however\, carried a heavy human cost. Anglia lost more than 160 people\, including wounded soldiers\, medical staff and crew. The Maritime Archaeology Trust gives the losses as more than 160\, including ten medical staff and 25 crew. Wessex Archaeology cites an estimate of about 164 dead\, including one nursing sister\, nine RAMC staff\, four army officers\, 125 other ranks and 25 crew. \nThe wreck today\nToday\, the remains of SS Lusitania lie off Folkestone at about 30 metres\, within the same First World War wreck landscape as HMHS Anglia. The two wrecks form part of a dense concentration of Dover Strait losses from the submarine and mine warfare of 1915. The area gives divers more than metal on the seabed; it gives them a direct look at rescue\, risk and wartime seamanship compressed into one tide-swept patch of Kent water. \nFor divers\, SS Lusitania is not the famous Lusitania. That is the point. This is the local\, lesser-known wreck with the better Kent connection: a working cargo steamer\, a hospital ship disaster\, a German minefield and a crew who survived after trying to save others. It is a wreck with a name everyone knows\, and a story too few people do.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-lusitania-1915/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260622T070000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260622T070000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
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SUMMARY:SS Sabac (1962)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Sabac wreck dive takes us to one of the Dover Strait’s most tragic post-war merchant ship losses. Sabac was a Yugoslav steam cargo ship of 2\,811 gross tons\, lost in thick fog after a collision near the Goodwin Sands in January 1962. She now lies in deeper Channel water\, with a story that links German shipbuilding\, wartime salvage\, Yugoslav trade and a bitterly cold night off Dover. \nSS Sabac wreck dive: history of the ship\nSabac began life in 1922 as Marie Leonhardt. Stettiner Oderwerke built her for the German shipping company Leonhardt & Blumberg. During the Second World War\, she suffered damage during an Allied air raid on Hamburg on 18 June 1944. After the war\, salvors raised and repaired her. She then entered Norwegian service as Skottnes\, before Yugoslav owners acquired her in 1947. \nUnder Yugoslav ownership\, the ship first traded as Susak. Later\, she received the name Sabac and joined the fleet of Kvarnerska Plovidba\, based in Rijeka. By 1962\, she was working as a practical cargo steamer rather than a glamorous ocean wanderer\, because even ships have to earn their keep somehow. \nOn her final voyage\, Sabac sailed from Ploce to Rotterdam with a cargo of bauxite. Lloyd’s Register records her loss under collision casualties for the first quarter of 1962\, noting the voyage\, cargo and location of the sinking. You can see the contemporary Lloyd’s record in the Lloyd’s Register Casualty Returns for 1962. \nThe collision and loss of Sabac\nLate on 7 January 1962\, Sabac entered the Dover Strait in dense fog. At around midnight\, she collided with the British motor vessel Dorington Court\, a much larger ship of about 6\,223 gross tons. The impact caused catastrophic damage. Contemporary accounts describe Sabac as badly holed\, and later local histories state that she was almost cut in two. \nThe ship sank in less than five minutes. That left the crew with almost no time to launch boats\, gather survival gear or escape the cold Channel water. Several nearby vessels joined the rescue\, including Dorington Court herself and the British Railways train ferry Hampton Ferry. However\, the fog made the search slow and difficult. \nDover and Walmer lifeboats launched after Coastguard alerts in the early hours of 8 January. The RNLI report for June 1962 records fog\, a light westerly wind\, smooth sea and high water. It also records parachute flares\, lifeboat searches\, reports from other vessels\, and support from aircraft. \nSabac carried 33 crew. Only five survived. Twenty-eight men died\, making the sinking one of the worst post-war merchant shipping tragedies in this part of the Channel. Croatian records name four of the dead from the Sibenik area: Sime Radovcic\, Sime Misurac\, Milivoj Vlahov and Rade Grbelja. Ten crew members were never recovered. \nWhat caused the loss?\nThe cause of loss was collision in thick fog. Sabac was on a commercial passage from Ploce to Rotterdam with bauxite cargo when Dorington Court struck her about six miles south-east of Dover. The force of the collision and the speed of flooding left Sabac fatally damaged. She sank before rescue vessels could reach most of her crew. \nFor divers\, the SS Sabac wreck dive is more than another deep metal wreck in the Dover Strait. It is a dive into a compact tragedy. The ship had already survived war damage\, salvage\, repair and several changes of name. Yet her final loss came from the old Channel enemies of fog\, traffic and poor visibility. \nDivers should expect a serious offshore wreck dive\, shaped by depth\, tide and Channel conditions. The wreck has been reported with recognisable structure\, including parts of the wheelhouse area\, domestic fittings and cargo-related remains. As ever\, look\, record and respect the site. This is a wreck with a human story\, not an underwater jumble sale with fins.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-sabac-1962/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260623T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260623T080000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
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SUMMARY:MV Andaman (1953)
DESCRIPTION:The MV Andaman was a Swedish motor cargo vessel built in 1947 by A/B Götaverken of Gothenburg for A/B Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet\, the Swedish East Asiatic Company. She was a modern post-war cargo ship of about 4\,765 tons\, measuring roughly 134 metres long\, with a beam of about 17.8 metres\, powered by oil engines. On her final voyage she was bound from Gothenburg to Calcutta\, a long-haul trade route cut short in the thick fog of the Dover Strait\, because the Channel has always treated visibility as an optional extra. \nOn 24 May 1953\, Andaman collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune about 3 miles south of the South Goodwin Lightvessel. She began sinking\, and her 38 crew abandoned ship into two boats. The Dover lifeboat launched\, but the crew had already been picked up by the SS Arthur Wright\, before being transferred to the lifeboat and landed at Dover. No lives were lost. For divers\, Andaman is a fine post-war Channel wreck: a substantial Swedish cargo ship\, lost in fog near the Goodwins\, with a clean rescue story and enough size\, structure and atmosphere to make her far more than a name on a chart.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/mv-andaman-1953-2/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260624T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260624T083000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
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SUMMARY:SS Luna (1919)
DESCRIPTION:SS Luna wreck dive\nThe SS Luna wreck dive visits the remains of a Dutch cargo steamer lost near the Goodwin Sands in 1919. Luna had survived the First World War\, but the sea had not finished collecting its debts. On 21 August 1919\, she struck a mine while outward bound from Amsterdam to Lisbon with general cargo. \nThis makes the SS Luna wreck dive a fascinating post-war wreck rather than a direct battle casualty. The war had ended nine months earlier\, yet mines still threatened merchant shipping across the Dover Strait. Luna shows how the Channel remained dangerous long after the guns fell silent. \nThe ship before the sinking\nLuna was a steel screw steamer built in 1912 for the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij of Amsterdam. Historic England records her builder as Vuijk\, while Dutch maritime records identify the yard as A. Vuijk & Zn. at Capelle aan den IJssel. She measured 1\,269 gross tons and 743 net tons\, with a recorded deadweight of 2\,030 tons. \nShe worked as a general cargo vessel\, part of the practical Dutch merchant fleet that kept European trade moving through awkward waters. Although a detailed manifest for her final voyage has not yet surfaced\, records agree that she carried general cargo when she was lost. \nHow SS Luna was lost\nOn 19 August 1919\, Luna left Amsterdam for Lisbon. Two days later\, she struck a mine near the Goodwin Sands and sank. Some newspaper accounts gave conflicting route details\, yet the stronger wreck records place her final passage from Amsterdam to Lisbon. \nThe loss came after the Armistice\, so there was no skirmish\, no gunfire and no submarine attack. Instead\, Luna became a late casualty of the minefields left behind by the First World War. All 26 people aboard survived\, and reports state that they landed safely at Calais. \nYou can read the main wreck record through Historic England’s SS Luna entry. Further Dutch fleet context appears in Marhisdata’s 1919 maritime chronicle. \nThe wreck today\nThe wreck lies in Channel waters off Kent\, with survey records giving a least depth of around 36 to 37 metres and a seabed depth around 46 metres. Historic records describe an apparently coherent wreck structure\, with dimensions varying between surveys as the site was re-examined over time. \nIn 2008\, divers recovered a bell marked “LUNA 1912”\, helping confirm the wreck’s identity. For divers\, Luna offers a strong mix of history\, depth and atmosphere. She is a reminder that the Dover Strait does not need drama to be serious. It has tide\, traffic\, mines\, sandbanks and a long memory. \nAre you a Mutiny Diver? Book more dives.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-luna-1919/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
CREATED:20260602T145256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260602T145256Z
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SUMMARY:SS Carmen (1963)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Carmen was a Panamanian steam cargo vessel\, originally built of steel at Sunderland by William Doxford & Sons Ltd. Historic England records conflicting build dates of 1920 and 1930\, but her recovered bell is engraved “IRON CHIEF 1930 SYDNEY”\, showing her earlier identity before later names including Stagpool\, Granny Suzanne\, and finally Carmen. She was a substantial freighter of about 112.9 metres long\, 16.1 metres in beam\, and around 4\,240 gross tons\, powered by a triple-expansion steam engine. On her final voyage she was carrying bauxite from Takoradi\, Ghana\, to Burntisland. Not glamorous cargo\, admittedly\, but bauxite has better wreck appeal than another dreary hold full of ballast and disappointment. \nOn 13 June 1963\, Carmen was caught in thick fog in the Dover Strait and collided with the Turkish steamship Sadikzade\, about 4.5 miles east of the South West Goodwin light buoy and 9.6 miles east of St Margaret’s Bay. She sank with the loss of two crewmen\, while the collision set off an absurdly grim chain reaction: Sadikzade then collided with the Greek motor vessel Leandros\, which in turn collided with the British tanker Clyde Sergeant. Today\, Carmen lies upright and largely intact in around 44 to 45 metres\, with her funnel around 30 metres and superstructure rising into the low 30s. For divers\, she is a superb deeper Channel wreck: intact\, dramatic\, well identified\, and carrying the unmistakable scar of a fog-bound collision in one of the busiest seaways on Earth.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-carmen-1963-2/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T063000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T093000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
CREATED:20260427T151334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260602T145440Z
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SUMMARY:SS Pommerania (1878)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Pommerania was a German Hamburg-America Line ocean liner\, built in 1873 by Caird & Co. of Greenock. She was a substantial passenger and cargo steamer of 3\,382 gross tons\, measuring roughly 110 metres long with a 12.2 metre beam. With a single screw\, compound engines and a service speed of about 13 knots\, she worked the North Atlantic route between Hamburg\, Southampton and New York\, carrying emigrants\, cabin passengers\, mails and general cargo. In short\, she was part liner\, part lifeline\, and part floating luggage cupboard for the 19th-century Atlantic world. \nHer final voyage ended in the Channel on the night of 25-26 November 1878\, while returning from New York to Hamburg via Plymouth. Off Folkestone\, she was struck amidships on the starboard side by the iron-hulled Welsh barque Moel Eilian\, which was bound from Rotterdam to Cardiff. Four of Pommerania’s nine lifeboats were smashed in the collision\, and she sank in less than half an hour. Sources vary slightly on the death toll\, giving 48\, 50 or 55 lives lost\, but the scale of the disaster is beyond doubt. Today she lies in about 25 metres\, a classic Channel liner wreck with machinery\, scattered structure and real human history behind every plate and rib. For divers\, this is Victorian steamship history at touching distance\, and considerably more exciting than another tidy spreadsheet pretending to be a wreck.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-pommerania-1878/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
CREATED:20260602T150101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260602T150101Z
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SUMMARY:SS Cuvier (1900)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Cuvier was an iron screw cargo steamer built in 1883 by A. Leslie & Co.\, recorded as built at Newcastle-upon-Tyne / Hebburn. She was fitted with a two-cylinder compound engine\, two boilers\, and carried official number 87903. Sources disagree slightly on her tonnage\, with one contemporary report giving 2\,299 gross tons\, while local wreck summaries often round her to about 2\,000 tons. At the time of her loss she was on passage from Antwerp to Bahia\, Brazil\, with a general cargo that included bagged cement\, lead ingots and crockery. Not exactly treasure\, but crockery on a wreck always adds a certain dinner-service drama\, because apparently even the seabed needs plates. \nOn 9 March 1900\, Cuvier was struck on the starboard side in the Dover Strait by the Norwegian steamer Dovre\, which was bound from Burntisland to Dieppe with coal. The collision tore open her side\, flooded the engine room\, and she sank in minutes\, around 6 miles east of the East Goodwin Lightvessel. Historic England records heavy loss of life\, with sources giving 26 to 28 crew lost and only a handful of survivors picked up by the steamer Windsor. For divers\, Cuvier is a classic Goodwins-area wreck: a Victorian cargo steamer\, a sudden night collision\, a grim human story\, and a site known for recovered Maastricht-marked bowls\, mugs\, chamber pots\, portholes and crockery. It’s the kind of wreck where the artefacts make the story feel oddly domestic\, which somehow makes the tragedy hit harder.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-cuvier-1900-4/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260628T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260628T130000
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SUMMARY:HMS Flirt (1916)
DESCRIPTION:HMS Flirt was a Royal Navy three-funnel\, 30-knot destroyer\, later grouped into the C-class\, built by Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd at Jarrow-on-Tyne. Laid down in 1896\, launched in 1897 and completed in 1899\, she was an older but fast destroyer of about 67 metres long\, with a 6.1 metre beam and a draught of roughly 2.7 metres. Her armament included a 12-pounder gun\, five 6-pounders and two 18-inch torpedo tubes. By 1916 she was serving with the Dover Patrol\, guarding the Dover Barrage and the drifters that maintained its anti-submarine nets. Small ship\, big job\, because the Admiralty did love sending lightly built destroyers into the Channel’s worst evenings. \nOn the night of 26-27 October 1916\, during the First Battle of the Dover Strait\, German torpedo boats raided the barrage. Flirt went to investigate gunfire and found the drifter Waveney II burning. She lowered a boat to help survivors\, then challenged approaching vessels in the darkness\, believing them possibly friendly. They were not. German destroyers opened fire at close range\, and HMS Flirt was sunk with heavy loss of life. Sources commonly record three officers\, including her commanding officer Lieutenant A. Swainson\, and more than 50 ratings killed or missing\, with the only survivors being those already away in the rescue boat. For divers\, Flirt is one of Dover’s most poignant war wrecks: a rescue attempt\, a night action\, and a little destroyer overwhelmed while doing exactly what she had been sent there to do.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hms-flirt-1916-2/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260629T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260629T113000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
CREATED:20260430T122658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T091731Z
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SUMMARY:SS Filleigh (1945)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Filleigh was a British steam cargo ship built in 1928\, registered at 4\,856 gross tons\, and measuring about 121.9 metres long\, with a 16.8 metre beam and 7.9 metre depth. She was owned by St Just Steamship Co. Ltd\, managed by W. R. Smith & Sons of London\, and by 1945 she was still doing the hard\, risky work of wartime supply. On her final voyage she was sailing from London to Antwerp with around 6\,000 tons of military stores\, which rather raises the stakes from “ordinary coaster” to “floating target with paperwork”. \nAt 05:55 on 18 April 1945\, only weeks before the end of the war in Europe\, Filleigh was torpedoed by U-245\, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Schumann-Hindenberg\, while in convoy off the North Foreland / Dover Strait area. The same attack also sank the Norwegian ship Karmt. Filleigh went down with the loss of five crewmen\, while her master\, 37 crew\, 10 DEMS gunners and a Belgian pilot were rescued and landed at Dover. For divers\, this is a powerful late-war wreck: a large cargo steamer\, military cargo\, a U-boat attack in the final days of the Battle of the Atlantic\, and a site lying in about 50 metres. Not a casual potter\, then. More a proper Channel wreck with teeth.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-filleigh-1945/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T073000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T073000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T091707Z
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SUMMARY:SS Unity (1918)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Unity was a British steam cargo vessel built in 1902 by Murdoch & Murray of Port Glasgow for the Co-operative Wholesale Society. She later passed to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company and worked the Goole to Hamburg trade before wartime service pulled her into cross-Channel supply work. She was a compact steamer of 1\,091 gross tons\, measuring about 75.2 metres long\, 11.2 metres in beam\, and 4.6 metres deep. Practical\, purposeful and unromantic\, which is exactly the sort of ship history later turns into a cracking dive. \nOn 2 May 1918\, Unity was sailing from Newhaven to Calais with a cargo of ordnance when she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-57\, commanded by Johannes Lohs\, around 9 nautical miles south-east of Folkestone. Twelve crewmen were lost\, although her captain survived. For divers\, Unity has all the ingredients of a proper Dover Strait war wreck: a working railway steamer\, a dangerous military cargo\, a U-boat attack in the final months of the First World War\, and a wreck lying in the Channel where trade\, war and tide all met in the usual civilised manner\, by breaking steel.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-unity-1918-2/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260708T053000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260708T053000
DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
CREATED:20260605T122350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T122350Z
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SUMMARY:SV Carron (1879)
DESCRIPTION:SV Carron wreck dive\nThe SV Carron wreck dive visits the remains of a British sailing barque lost near the Goodwin Sands in 1879. Carron was not a war loss. Instead\, this SV Carron wreck dive tells a classic Victorian Channel story: a cargo vessel\, a busy sea lane and a collision that ended her final voyage. \nCarron was sailing from New Orleans to Leith with a cargo of oilcake when she met the Spanish vessel Bilboa. On 3 March 1879\, the two vessels collided about 12 miles east-north-east of the North Sand light. Carron sank soon afterwards. \nSV Carron wreck dive: the ship before the loss\nCarron was a British barque built by John Crown at Low Southwick\, on the River Wear. She launched on 16 April 1867 and entered service with Watts\, Milburn & Co. of Newcastle. Her first port of register was Shields\, and she was later registered at North Shields. \nShe measured 344 gross tons and was about 36.6 m long\, with a beam of about 8.3 m. As a sailing cargo vessel\, she belonged to the working fleet that linked British ports with the Atlantic trade. Her final passage brought her homeward from New Orleans to Leith. \nHer cargo was oilcake\, a valuable animal feed made from pressed seed residue after oil extraction. It was a practical cargo rather than a glamorous one\, because Victorian commerce rarely paused to consider whether future divers wanted something more exciting to talk about. \nThe collision near the North Sand light\nThe known record places the collision about 12 miles east-north-east of the North Sand light. This matters because the North Sand light marked the dangerous approaches around the Goodwin Sands. The area carried heavy traffic\, awkward tides and plenty of opportunity for one ship to become another ship’s problem. \nCarron collided with the Spanish vessel Bilboa on 3 March 1879. After the collision\, Carron sank. I have not found a reliable report naming casualties or confirming deaths\, so the loss should be treated as a vessel loss with casualties currently unknown. \nThe cause of loss appears straightforward: collision. However\, the wider setting still deserves respect. Sailing vessels\, steamers\, pilot craft and foreign traders all shared these Channel routes in the late nineteenth century. As a result\, the waters off Kent saw frequent collisions\, strandings and wrecks. \nYou can view the main vessel record through Wear Built Ships’ Carron entry. For wider local pilotage context\, see The Dover Historian’s Cinque Ports Pilots account. \nThe wreck today\nFor divers\, Carron offers a different kind of Channel wreck. She was not a steel steamer or submarine. She was a wooden or composite-era sailing cargo vessel from the age when barques still carried Atlantic cargoes into British ports. \nThat makes the dive historically interesting\, even where the wreckage may be broken\, buried or less obvious than a later steamship. The story sits in the overlap between sail\, trade\, pilotage and the unforgiving geography of the Goodwin Sands. In short\, Carron gives you a Victorian wreck with a proper Channel pedigree. \nAre you a Mutiny Diver? Book more dives.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/sv-carron-1879/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260708T133000
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DTSTAMP:20260605T145543
CREATED:20260604T084921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T091650Z
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SUMMARY:SS Pommerania (1878)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Pommerania was a German Hamburg-America Line ocean liner\, built in 1873 by Caird & Co. of Greenock. She was a substantial passenger and cargo steamer of 3\,382 gross tons\, measuring roughly 110 metres long with a 12.2 metre beam. With a single screw\, compound engines and a service speed of about 13 knots\, she worked the North Atlantic route between Hamburg\, Southampton and New York\, carrying emigrants\, cabin passengers\, mails and general cargo. In short\, she was part liner\, part lifeline\, and part floating luggage cupboard for the 19th-century Atlantic world. \nHer final voyage ended in the Channel on the night of 25-26 November 1878\, while returning from New York to Hamburg via Plymouth. Off Folkestone\, she was struck amidships on the starboard side by the iron-hulled Welsh barque Moel Eilian\, which was bound from Rotterdam to Cardiff. Four of Pommerania’s nine lifeboats were smashed in the collision\, and she sank in less than half an hour. Sources vary slightly on the death toll\, giving 48\, 50 or 55 lives lost\, but the scale of the disaster is beyond doubt. Today she lies in about 25 metres\, a classic Channel liner wreck with machinery\, scattered structure and real human history behind every plate and rib. For divers\, this is Victorian steamship history at touching distance\, and considerably more exciting than another tidy spreadsheet pretending to be a wreck.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-pommerania-1878-2/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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