BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Mutiny Diving - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mutinydiving.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Mutiny Diving
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20250330T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20251026T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20260329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20261025T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20270328T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20271031T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T093000
DTSTAMP:20260525T000204
CREATED:20260426T104609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162319Z
UID:10000083-1779701400-1779701400@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:HMT Corona – FY1137 (1916)
DESCRIPTION:HMT Corona was a British hired naval trawler\, built in 1912 by Dundee Shipbuilding Co. Ltd and registered at Grimsby as GY684. She was a small working vessel of about 212 gross tons\, taken into Admiralty service in February 1915 as hired trawler No. 1137. Naval-History records her armament as one 6-pounder and one 2-pounder gun\, which is a polite way of saying a fishing trawler had been handed weapons and sent into one of the most dangerous minefields in Europe. Humanity does enjoy giving impossible jobs to boats with the build of a dockyard terrier. \nOn 23 March 1916\, Corona struck a mine off Ramsgate / in The Downs\, believed to have been laid by the German minelaying submarine UC-6\, commanded by Matthias Graf von Schmettow. Wrecksite and naval loss summaries record 13 lives lost\, with the position often given around 51°08’50″N\, 1°25’00″E. For divers\, this is a compact but atmospheric Dover Strait war wreck: a requisitioned trawler\, a UC-boat minefield\, and a loss tied to the same deadly Channel campaign that claimed several merchantmen and patrol vessels in 1916. Small wreck. Heavy story.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-corona-fy1137-1916/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T153000
DTSTAMP:20260525T000204
CREATED:20260426T104610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162341Z
UID:10000084-1779723000-1779723000@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:HMT Carlton – FY1965 (1916)
DESCRIPTION:HMT Carlton was a British hired steam trawler\, built in 1907 and registered at Grimsby as GY270. She was a small vessel of about 267 gross tons\, taken into Admiralty service in December 1915 as hired trawler No. 1965. Armed with a single 3-pounder gun\, she served as a minesweeper\, one of those tough little working boats pushed into the Dover Patrol’s most dangerous work. Not exactly the sort of career move you’d choose from a brochure\, but the First World War was not big on employee wellbeing. \nOn 21 February 1916\, Carlton was mined off Folkestone and lost in the Dover Strait. The available naval loss records give the cause as a mine from an unknown source\, so I’d avoid confidently naming the U-boat unless you’ve got a local source tying it down. For divers\, Carlton is a compact but evocative First World War wreck: a Grimsby fishing trawler turned minesweeper\, lost after only a short spell in naval service\, in the same brutal Channel waters where small patrol craft worked daily against mines\, weather and traffic. Small wreck\, hard life\, proper Dover Patrol story.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-carlton-fy1965-1916/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T093000
DTSTAMP:20260525T000204
CREATED:20260427T143645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162358Z
UID:10000117-1779787800-1779787800@mutinydiving.com
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-1900-3/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mutinydiving.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SS-Cuvier.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260527T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260527T123000
DTSTAMP:20260525T000204
CREATED:20260426T104611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162416Z
UID:10000085-1779885000-1779885000@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:HMT La Nantaise – FY360 (1945)
DESCRIPTION:HMT La Nantaise began life as the British steam trawler St. Arcadius\, built in 1933 by Cook\, Welton & Gemmell Ltd of Beverley for T. Hamling & Co. Ltd of Hull. She was a steel screw trawler of 403 gross tons\, measuring about 46.2 metres long\, with a 7.8 metre beam and 4.1 metre depth\, driven by a triple-expansion engine by C. D. Holmes & Co. Ltd. Requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1939 as FY135\, she was later sold or transferred to the French Navy as La Nantaise\, then seized by Britain at Plymouth on 3 July 1940 and recommissioned into the Royal Navy as FY360. Because wartime ownership was apparently a game of pass-the-parcel\, only with depth charges. \nBy 1945 she was serving as an anti-submarine trawler under Skipper Lieutenant Sidney John Cory\, DSC\, RNR. On 8 July 1945\, two months after VE Day\, La Nantaise sank in The Downs\, near the Goodwin Sands Lightship\, after a collision with the SS Helen Crest. Records list 11 lost from a crew of 25\, with survivors rescued by the tug Empire Henchman. For divers\, this is a compact but poignant Channel wreck: a fishing trawler turned patrol vessel\, French in name\, British in service\, lost after the war in Europe had supposedly finished. The sea\, naturally\, did not read the memo.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-la-nantaise-fy360-1945/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T113000
DTSTAMP:20260525T000204
CREATED:20260426T104613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162435Z
UID:10000086-1779967800-1779967800@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:SS Valuta (1886)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Valuta was a German steam cargo ship\, built in 1883 at Flensburg. She was a compact iron steamer of about 784 gross tons\, with local dive records giving her dimensions as roughly 74 metres long\, 10 metres beam and 5 metres depth. She was on passage from Hamburg to the Amur\, in the Russian Far East\, which is quite the journey for a vessel now sitting off Kent\, because the Channel has always had a talent for interrupting travel plans. \nOn 22 April 1886\, Valuta was caught in heavy fog and collided with the Hamburg steamer Petropolis in the English Channel\, about 15 nautical miles north-east of the Goodwin Sands. She sank roughly an hour later\, but all 22 people aboard were rescued by Petropolis\, a rare happy ending in the wreck business and therefore almost suspicious. For divers\, Valuta offers a neat late-Victorian collision wreck: German iron\, Channel fog\, Goodwin Sands danger\, and a compact site with enough period character to make it far more appealing than its modest tonnage suggests.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-valuta-1886/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mutinydiving.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SS-Valuta.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260529T070000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260529T070000
DTSTAMP:20260525T000204
CREATED:20260426T104624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162458Z
UID:10000087-1780038000-1780038000@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:HMT Othello II – FY1193 (1915)
DESCRIPTION:HMT Othello II was a Hull steam trawler built in 1907 by Cook\, Welton & Gemmell of Beverley\, with engines by Amos & Smith. She was built for the Hellyer Steam Fishing Company\, part of a fleet famously named after Shakespearean characters\, because apparently even trawlers needed a literary education before being sent into a minefield. Requisitioned by the Admiralty in March 1915\, she became minesweeper FY1193 and joined the Dover Patrol’s hard-used trawler force. Sources place her at around 206 tons\, a small vessel asked to do brutally dangerous work in the Channel. \nOn 31 October 1915\, Othello II was sent to patrol “Section Two”\, between the Goodwin Gate and the Gull Lightship\, after UC-6 had laid mines there the previous day. In a strong south-south-easterly gale\, she struck one of those mines at about 11:55am and sank rapidly. The mine was laid by SM UC-6\, commanded by Matthias Graf von Schmettow\, the same field that also claimed SS Eidsiva\, SS Toward and HMY Aries. Nine men were lost\, with a single deck-boy survivor reportedly squeezed out through the wheelhouse window before the vessel went down. For divers\, this is a small but deeply powerful Dover Patrol wreck: a fishing trawler turned minesweeper\, lost in the same deadly wartime trap as several larger ships\, and carrying a human story far bigger than her size suggests.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-othello-ii-fy1193-1915/
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/Othello-II.jpg.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260529T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260529T123000
DTSTAMP:20260525T000204
CREATED:20260426T104625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162517Z
UID:10000088-1780057800-1780057800@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:HMT Saxon Prince – FY262 (1916)
DESCRIPTION:HMT Saxon Prince was a North Shields steam trawler\, built by J. T. Eltringham & Co. Ltd at South Shields and completed in January 1907 for Prince Steam Fishing Co. Ltd\, with Richard Irvin as manager. She was a steel screw trawler of 237 gross tons\, about 36.7 metres long\, with a 6.7 metre beam and 3.7 metre depth\, driven by a triple-expansion engine built by Shields Engineering & Dry Dock Co. Ltd. In August 1914 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted into minesweeper No. 262\, proving once again that the Navy looked at hard-working fishing boats and thought\, “that’ll do\, send it into danger.” \nOn 28 March 1916\, Saxon Prince disappeared off Dover / Kingsdown in a violent south-westerly Force 12 storm\, while serving on Admiralty patrol work. Some records mention possible mining\, but the strongest contemporary explanation is foundering in the furious gale. The Maritime Archaeology Trust records that all 12 men aboard were lost\, and likely remains now lie in about 22 metres of water\, roughly off the cliffs between St Margaret’s Bay and Kingsdown. For divers\, this is a small wreck with a hard human story: a former fishing trawler turned wartime minesweeper\, lost not to gunfire or torpedo\, but to the Channel itself at its most brutal.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-saxon-prince-fy262-1916/
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/HMT-Saxon-Prince.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T080000
DTSTAMP:20260525T000204
CREATED:20260426T104626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260502T120830Z
UID:10000089-1780128000-1780128000@mutinydiving.com
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/
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-Unity.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T133000
DTSTAMP:20260525T000204
CREATED:20260426T104627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162558Z
UID:10000090-1780147800-1780147800@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:HMT Cayton Wyke (1940)
DESCRIPTION:HMT Cayton Wyke was a British steam trawler built in 1932 by Cochrane & Sons of Selby\, originally a fishing vessel before the Admiralty purchased her in August 1939 and converted her into an anti-submarine trawler. Sources give her tonnage slightly differently\, with 550 tons in Naval-History and Historic England\, while some trawler lists place her nearer 373 to 375 gross tons\, so I’d avoid putting the tonnage in bold neon until you’ve checked Wrecksite or Lloyd’s Register. Either way\, she was a tough little patrol vessel doing dangerous work in the Dover Strait\, where small ships were expected to face mines\, aircraft\, U-boats and E-boats with very little room for error. Civilisation\, naturally\, rewarded this by giving them the worst jobs afloat. \nOn 8 July 1940\, Cayton Wyke was sunk off Dover\, close to the South Goodwin Lightship\, after being hit by a torpedo from a German E-boat\, commonly identified as S-36. Naval-History records her as lost by surface-craft torpedo\, while shipwreck lists state that all 18 crew were lost. She also has a notable earlier wartime footnote: in October 1939\, she helped HMS Puffin sink the German submarine U-16 near Dover. For divers\, Cayton Wyke is a compact but powerful Channel war wreck: a former fishing trawler turned hunter\, lost in the knife-edge summer of 1940\, when the Dover Strait was less a sea lane and more a firing range with tides
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-cayton-wyke-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/HMT-Cayton-Wyke.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260531T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260531T080000
DTSTAMP:20260525T000204
CREATED:20260426T104629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162617Z
UID:10000091-1780214400-1780214400@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:HMT Tranquil – FY 920 (1942)
DESCRIPTION:HMT Tranquil began life as the steam trawler Good Luck\, built in 1912 by Cook\, Welton & Gemmell Ltd at Beverley\, yard number 249. She was a steel screw trawler of 294 gross tons\, measuring about 39.6 metres long with a 7.2 metre beam\, powered by an Amos & Smith triple-expansion engine rated at 87 NHP. First registered at Hull as H497\, she later moved to Fleetwood as FD425 and took the name Tranquil. She had already served once in war\, requisitioned in April 1915 as a minesweeper and escort vessel\, before returning to fishing after the First World War. History clearly saw a hardworking trawler and thought\, “You again.” \nRequisitioned again on 28 April 1940\, Tranquil became Royal Navy minesweeper FY 920. After repairs at Tilbury\, she left dock on 14 June 1942\, but two days later\, on 16 June 1942\, she sank following a collision off Deal\, Kent. At least one crewman is specifically recorded as lost: Seaman Kenneth James Pentreath\, Royal Naval Patrol Service\, aged 21\, who drowned on active service. For divers\, Tranquil is one of those quietly powerful Channel wrecks: a fishing boat turned wartime minesweeper\, twice taken into naval service\, lost close to the Dover approaches in the middle of Britain’s coastal war. Small ship\, hard life\, proper story.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-tranquil-fy-920-1942/
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/HMT-Tranquil-as-Trawler-Good-Luck.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR