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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: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:20260620T060000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260620T060000
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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:20260614T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260614T120000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260614T070000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260614T070000
DTSTAMP:20260726T183419
CREATED:20260426T104710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T163328Z
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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:20260613T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260613T120000
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CREATED:20260426T104709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T163307Z
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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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LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T163244Z
UID:10000107-1781332200-1781332200@mutinydiving.com
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://mutinydiving.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Mindora.jpg-IDCddO.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260607T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260607T123000
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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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://mutinydiving.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SS-Efford.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260606T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260606T113000
DTSTAMP:20260726T183419
CREATED:20260426T104644Z
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:20260604T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260604T093000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162729Z
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SUMMARY:SS Nunima (1918)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Nunima was a British steel screw cargo steamer built in 1903 by William Gray & Co. Ltd of West Hartlepool for Trechmann Steamship Co. Ltd. She was a sizeable working tramp of 2\,938 gross tons\, measuring about 99.1 metres long\, with a 14.3 metre beam and a 6.7 metre draught. Her triple-expansion engine\, built by Central Marine Engineering Works\, drove a single screw. In other words\, proper Edwardian cargo iron: built for work\, not glamour\, because shipowners had clearly not yet discovered the marketing department. \nOn 4 January 1918\, Nunima was on passage from Bilbao to Middlesbrough with a cargo of iron ore when she sank after a collision off Folkestone\, reported variously as with P19 or an unidentified Royal Navy torpedo boat. UKHO-derived wreck data places the wreck at about 50°58.304’N\, 1°08.678’E\, lying upright and largely intact in roughly 32 metres\, with a least depth of around 19 metres over the wreck. No lives were lost\, which is a rare mercy in these Channel stories and frankly suspiciously decent of history for once. For divers\, Nunima is a big\, upright First World War merchant steamer with cargo history\, scale\, structure and a proper Dover Strait collision story. A solid wreck with presence.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-nunima-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:20260603T091500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260603T091500
DTSTAMP:20260726T183419
CREATED:20260426T104640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162711Z
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SUMMARY:SS Castor (1894)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Castor was a Dutch iron screw steamship\, launched on 18 June 1870 by A. & J. Inglis of Glasgow for the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (Royal Netherlands Steamship Company). She was registered at Amsterdam and measured about 77 metres long\, with a 9.9 metre beam\, 1\,500 gross tons\, two boilers and a two-cylinder compound engine. Earlier in her career she even worked Atlantic passenger routes\, before settling into Mediterranean and Baltic cargo service\, because apparently one lifetime of honest work wasn’t enough for a Victorian steamer. \nOn 28 July 1894\, Castor was on passage from Smyrna\, now Izmir\, to Amsterdam\, having called at Algiers\, when she was caught in dense fog off Dungeness / Folkestone and collided with the German barque Ernst. She was struck amidships and sank\, but her 25 crew and 3 passengers were all saved. Her cargo gives this wreck its real intrigue: 14 Greco-Roman sculptures and inscriptions\, packed in two crates for the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. Divers later recovered several second-century marble pieces from the wreck\, including sculptured heads and funerary monuments. Today\, Castor is a cracking dive with a rare story: a Dutch steamer\, a Channel collision\, and classical antiquities lying in the silt like history had dropped its handbag
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-castor-1894/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mutinydiving.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Dover-Strait-Map.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T073000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T073000
DTSTAMP:20260726T183419
CREATED:20260426T104626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T150410Z
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SUMMARY:SS Unity (1918)
DESCRIPTION:SS Unity wreck dive\nThe SS Unity wreck dive explores a British wartime steamer sunk by UB-57 off Folkestone in 1918. Unity was carrying ordnance from Newhaven to Calais when the German submarine attacked her on 2 May 1918. As a result\, twelve crew died\, although her captain survived. \nThis SS Unity wreck dive gives you a compact but powerful First World War Channel story. Unity began life as a Goole trade steamer\, but the war pulled her into military transport work. Therefore\, her final voyage linked the railway-owned coastal fleet with the supply routes feeding the Western Front. \nSS Unity wreck dive: the ship before the loss\nMurdoch & Murray built Unity at Port Glasgow in 1902. Uboat.net records her as a British steamer of 1\,091 gross tons. By the time of her loss\, the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co. of Goole operated her. \nUnity also belonged to a small group of practical North Sea trading steamers. Scuba.To notes that Equity\, Liberty and Unity had originally served the Goole-Hamburg trade before the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway acquired them in 1906. Consequently\, Unity had a working commercial history before wartime service changed her role. \nHer final cargo was ordnance\, although some records spell it as “ordinance”. That detail matters because she was not carrying ordinary general cargo on a peacetime hop across the Channel. Instead\, she carried war material from Newhaven to Calais\, across one of the most dangerous short sea routes of 1918. \nThe attack by UB-57\nOn 2 May 1918\, Unity crossed the Channel from Newhaven to Calais. German submarine UB-57\, commanded by Johannes Lohs\, found her about 9 miles south-east of Folkestone. Then the attack ended Unity’s passage before she could reach France. \nUB-57 was no minor threat. She was a Type UB III submarine operating from the Flanders flotilla\, and Uboat.net credits her with 46 ships sunk during her career. In addition\, Lohs ranked among the more successful German U-boat commanders of the First World War. \nUnity sank with the loss of twelve crew. Her captain survived\, but the dead included firemen\, seamen\, the chief officer\, the chief engineer and a leading seaman. The named casualties include Ernest Henry Appleyard\, William Goodall Bateman\, Edward Creaser\, Thomas William Gibson\, James Charles Hansome\, Fred Hounslow Heterick\, John Jones\, John Rockett\, Thompson\, John Walsh\, Seth West and Edward Frederick Whitehead. \nYou can read the attack summary in Uboat.net’s SS Unity record. Meanwhile\, the named casualty list and local wreck notes appear in Scuba.To’s SS Unity article. \nThe wreck today\nFor divers\, Unity offers a rewarding First World War wreck with a clear story and a manageable Channel depth. Canterbury Divers describe the wreck as upright and intact in a maximum depth of about 40 m\, with the deck generally around 32 to 35 m. In addition\, they note breaks at both ends and cargo spilled from the wreck. \nThe cargo gives the site extra interest. Ordnance made Unity a wartime target\, while surviving seabed details\, including recognisable fittings and scattered material\, help connect the dive to the final voyage. Even small finds such as spoons\, crockery or cargo fragments matter here\, because they link the wreck to the men who worked and died aboard her. \nUnity is not listed here as a protected military wreck\, but the site still deserves respectful diving. Twelve men died when UB-57 sank her\, and the wreck remains part of the wartime seascape off Folkestone. Therefore\, this is a look\, learn and leave-alone dive\, not a shopping trip for shiny nonsense. \nAre you a Mutiny Diver? Book more dives.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-unity-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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