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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260509T063000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260509T063000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T161710Z
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SUMMARY:SS Toward (1915)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Toward was a British steel screw cargo steamer\, built in Glasgow in 1899 for the Clyde Shipping Company. She was a modest but busy working ship of 1\,218 gross tons\, trading between British ports with the unromantic cargoes that kept the country moving. On her final voyage\, she was sailing from London to Belfast with general cargo\, a wonderfully vague phrase that later proved more interesting than it sounds. Divers have reported cargo remains including brass\, silverware and even motor-car parts\, which is a decent reminder that “general cargo” often meant “a floating attic with a funnel”. \nOn 31 October 1915\, Toward struck a mine laid by the German minelaying submarine UC-6\, commanded by Matthias Graf von Schmettow\, near the South Foreland / Dover area. The explosion tore into her beneath No. 2 hold\, just forward of the bridge. She caught fire\, settled quickly\, and was abandoned. Remarkably\, all the crew were rescued\, including men who had jumped into the sea. For divers\, Toward is a proper First World War Channel wreck: mine warfare\, wartime cargo\, a dramatic sinking\, and a site still rich with clues from a ship that went down in one of the Dover Patrol’s most dangerous corridors.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-toward-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:20260509T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260509T130000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T161747Z
UID:10000073-1778331600-1778331600@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:The Orangeman Mystery
DESCRIPTION:The wreck known as the Orangeman is one of Dover’s more curious local names\, generally linked to the steamer Helene\, which was lost off the coast while carrying a cargo of citrus fruit from Valencia to Antwerp. For divers\, it is one of those Kent wrecks where folklore and fact overlap\, the nickname surviving because the cargo was memorable even when the wreck’s true identity became muddled.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/known-as-the-orangeman/
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:20260510T073000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260510T073000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T161806Z
UID:10000074-1778398200-1778398200@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:HMT Bonar Law – FY1223 (1915)
DESCRIPTION:HMT Bonar Law was a Hull-registered steam trawler\, fishing number H437\, built in 1912 by Cochrane & Sons Ltd for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co. Ltd. She was a compact but sturdy vessel of about 284 to 285 gross tons\, powered by a screw-driven triple-expansion engine built by C. D. Holmes & Co. Ltd of Hull. In February 1915 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty as hired trawler No. 1223\, armed with a 3-pounder gun\, and sent into minesweeping service with the Dover Patrol. A fishing boat turned warship\, in other words\, because the First World War had a habit of handing impossible jobs to small vessels with big hearts. \nOn 27 October 1915\, Bonar Law sank on the South Goodwins after a collision\, with sources specifically placing her loss after contact with the South Goodwin Light Vessel. She had been patrolling and minesweeping in one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the Dover Strait\, where shoals\, mines\, traffic and weather all queued up to ruin someone’s day. For divers\, this is a classic Dover Patrol wreck: small\, purposeful\, historically loaded\, and tied directly to the hard\, often overlooked work of the hired trawler crews who kept the Channel routes open. No grand liner glamour here\, thank heavens. This is tougher stuff.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmt-bonar-law-fy1223-1915/
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:20260510T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260510T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T161835Z
UID:10000075-1778421600-1778421600@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:SS Romulus (1889)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Romulus was a British screw cargo steamer\, probably the 2\,630-ton\, 91.4 metre well-deck steel steamer listed under official number 14439. ShipIndex identifies a Romulus of that tonnage and length\, while Sunderland shipping notes place the vessel on a final voyage from Sunderland to Leghorn\, now Livorno\, with a cargo described as fuel\, most likely coal or bunker fuel cargo in the language of the day. As ever\, Victorian records make you earn every scrap\, because apparently “clear paperwork” was considered vulgar. \nOn 17 January 1889\, Romulus was in the English Channel off the South Foreland when she was run into by the French steamship Felgrano and sank in the early hours. Contemporary wreck listings record one crew member lost. For divers\, this is a strong Dover Strait collision story: a Sunderland steamer outward bound for the Mediterranean\, a night-time impact off the Kent coast\, and a wreck with the quiet appeal of Victorian working steam\, iron\, coal trade and Channel fog. Not a showy wreck\, thankfully. The best ones rarely are.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-romulus-1889/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260512
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260503T112015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260503T112015Z
UID:10000142-1778457600-1778543999@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:Neap Tide
DESCRIPTION:Neap Tide marker for general dive planning around Dover. Use as guidance only. Final dive timings depend on skipper judgement\, weather\, sea state\, tidal data and site conditions.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/neap-tide-9/
CATEGORIES:Tide Planner
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260511T073000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260511T073000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T164919Z
UID:10000076-1778484600-1778484600@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/
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:20260512T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260512T093000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260427T142841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T161901Z
UID:10000115-1778578200-1778578200@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:SS Eidsiva I (1915)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Eidsiva I was a Norwegian steam cargo vessel of about 1\,092 gross tons\, a modest North Sea trader caught up in the lethal traffic of the Dover Strait during the First World War. She was carrying coal from Shields to Rouen when she became one of several ships caught by the same German minefield laid by SM UC-6\, commanded by Matthias Graf von Schmettow. Records place her near the South Foreland / South Goodwin Lightship area\, which puts her firmly in classic Dover wreck territory\, where tides\, traffic and wartime hazards all conspired like a committee of maritime villains. \nOn 31 October 1915\, Eidsiva struck a mine and sank\, part of the grim run of losses from UC-6’s newly laid field that also claimed or damaged vessels including Toward\, HMT Othello II and HMY Aries. For divers\, Eidsiva offers a proper First World War Channel story: a neutral Norwegian collier\, a cargo of coal\, a Dover Strait minefield\, and a wreck lying in the busy waterway where commercial trade and naval warfare collided in steel\, steam and bad luck.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-eidsiva-i-1915-2/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260514T101500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260514T101500
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T161923Z
UID:10000077-1778753700-1778753700@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:SS Empire Rupert (1945)
DESCRIPTION:She was a British steam tug\, built for the Ministry of War Transport by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd\, launched in November 1942 and completed in May 1943. She was a compact but powerful wartime workhorse of 487 gross tons\, managed by United Towing Co. Ltd of Hull\, and used in the unsentimental business of towing\, salvage and wartime support. In 1944 she was allocated to Operation Corncob\, towing and escorting blockships for the Normandy harbour works. Not glamorous\, but vital. The war was held together by vessels like this\, while larger ships took the headlines\, obviously. \nHer end came on 24 January 1945\, around 10 nautical miles off Dover\, when she collided with SS Twickenham Ferry\, the Southern Railway train ferry then running wartime Channel service. Empire Rupert sank after the collision\, with sources giving the position as roughly 51°03’N\, 01°32’E. The best tug-specific source I found gives 11 lives lost\, while the Wrecksite summary confirms the collision and sinking but truncates the casualty detail. For divers\, this is a different kind of Channel wreck: not a merchantman with a cargo hold full of curiosities\, but a hard-used wartime tug with Normandy service behind her\, lost in the final months of the war on the busy Dover approaches. Small ship. Big story.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-empire-rupert-1945/
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/Dover-Strait-Map.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260503T112015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260503T112015Z
UID:10000143-1779062400-1779148799@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:Spring Tide
DESCRIPTION:Spring Tide marker for general dive planning around Dover. Use as guidance only. Final dive timings depend on skipper judgement\, weather\, sea state\, tidal data and site conditions.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/spring-tide-10/
CATEGORIES:Tide Planner
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260522T063000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260522T063000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T161945Z
UID:10000079-1779431400-1779431400@mutinydiving.com
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-1908/
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:20260522T121500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260522T121500
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162009Z
UID:10000078-1779452100-1779452100@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:HMTS Monarch (1915)
DESCRIPTION:HMTS Monarch was a General Post Office cable ship\, built in 1883 by David J Dunlop & Co. of Port Glasgow. She was the first cable ship designed specifically for the GPO\, a specialist working vessel of 1\,122 gross tons\, about 73 metres long\, fitted with three cable tanks and heavy cable machinery for laying and recovering submarine telegraph cable. She carried a crew of around 74\, and even had finely fitted interiors\, because apparently Victorian engineers could build a practical cable ship and still find room for walnut panelling. \nOn 8 September 1915\, Monarch was on passage from Santander to Newport with iron ore when she struck a mine laid by the German submarine UC-5\, about 2.5 miles south of Folkestone\, near the defence boom gate. She sank with frightening speed\, reportedly in around three minutes\, with three lives lost. The wreck lies upright but dispersed in roughly 21 to 28 metres\, with boilers\, triple-expansion engine remains\, cable gear\, pulley wheels\, GPO-marked finds and cable-related fittings still giving the site its unmistakable character. For divers\, Monarch is a cracking First World War Channel wreck: part industrial archaeology\, part wartime casualty\, and part underwater museum of the age when Britain’s messages travelled through copper\, gutta-percha and optimism.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/hmts-monarch-1915/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260523T070000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260523T070000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T121659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162033Z
UID:10000105-1779519600-1779519600@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:SS Toward (1915)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Toward was a British steel screw cargo steamer\, built in Glasgow in 1899 for the Clyde Shipping Company. She was a modest but busy working ship of 1\,218 gross tons\, trading between British ports with the unromantic cargoes that kept the country moving. On her final voyage\, she was sailing from London to Belfast with general cargo\, a wonderfully vague phrase that later proved more interesting than it sounds. Divers have reported cargo remains including brass\, silverware and even motor-car parts\, which is a decent reminder that “general cargo” often meant “a floating attic with a funnel”. \nOn 31 October 1915\, Toward struck a mine laid by the German minelaying submarine UC-6\, commanded by Matthias Graf von Schmettow\, near the South Foreland / Dover area. The explosion tore into her beneath No. 2 hold\, just forward of the bridge. She caught fire\, settled quickly\, and was abandoned. Remarkably\, all the crew were rescued\, including men who had jumped into the sea. For divers\, Toward is a proper First World War Channel wreck: mine warfare\, wartime cargo\, a dramatic sinking\, and a site still rich with clues from a ship that went down in one of the Dover Patrol’s most dangerous corridors.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-toward-1915-2/
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:20260523T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260523T133000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162055Z
UID:10000080-1779543000-1779543000@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:SS Mount Stewart (1894)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Mount Stewart was a small British steel screw steamer\, built by William Gray & Co. of West Hartlepool. She measured 59.8 metres long\, with a 9.2 metre beam and a depth of 3.7 metres\, and was registered at 738 gross tons. Owned by the Marquis of Londonderry and registered at Sunderland\, she was a practical coastal and short-sea cargo vessel\, the kind of hard-working steamer that rarely gets remembered until it ends up on a chart. Humanity’s filing system for maritime history remains\, as ever\, a mild insult to civilisation. \nHer loss came on 24 July 1894\, while travelling from Rotterdam to Bilbao in ballast. Lloyd’s casualty returns list her as lost after a collision\, about 4 miles south-south-east of Folkestone. Tees Built Ships adds that the other vessel was the SS Trinidad\, although another local wreck list appears to name Setubal\, so I’d treat the identity of the colliding ship with caution unless you want that rabbit hole on the event page. For divers\, this is a compact Victorian steamer wreck in classic Channel territory: no romantic cargo\, no glittering treasure chest\, but plenty of iron\, impact\, tide\, traffic and story. The sea kept the interesting bit\, obviously.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-mount-stewart-1894/
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/Dover-Strait-Map.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260525
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260503T112015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260503T112015Z
UID:10000144-1779580800-1779667199@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:Neap Tide
DESCRIPTION:Neap Tide marker for general dive planning around Dover. Use as guidance only. Final dive timings depend on skipper judgement\, weather\, sea state\, tidal data and site conditions.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/neap-tide-10/
CATEGORIES:Tide Planner
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260524T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260524T080000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260427T143426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162236Z
UID:10000116-1779609600-1779609600@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-fy262-1916-2/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260524T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260524T143000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162253Z
UID:10000082-1779633000-1779633000@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:SS Leo (1940)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Leo was a small British steam collier\, built in 1908 by Stettiner Oderwerke in Germany. She was about 68.9 metres long\, with a 10.4 metre beam\, a draught of roughly 4.3 metres\, and registered at 1\,140 tons. Driven by a triple-expansion steam engine\, she was the very definition of a hard-working coastal coal boat. On her final voyage she was carrying around 1\,536 tons of coal from Seaham to Portsmouth\, a routine wartime coastal run that became anything but routine\, because the Channel in July 1940 had developed a nasty habit of turning coal convoys into target practice. \nOn 25 July 1940\, during the Battle of Britain period\, Leo was part of Convoy CW8\, known as “Peewit”\, when German Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers attacked the convoy off Dover. The raid became known as Black Thursday\, with several ships sunk\, including Leo\, Corhaven\, Henry Moon\, Polgrange\, Portslade and Summity. Leo was bombed and machine-gunned from the starboard quarter and sank close to Dover. Sources differ on casualties\, with one dive account giving six lost from 27 crew\, while a memorial source records 10 crew lost\, so I’d avoid a precise number on the event page unless you want to add a footnote and ruin everyone’s cheerful booking mood. For divers\, this is a compact wartime collier with real atmosphere: coal cargo\, Battle of Britain skies\, Stuka attack\, and a wreck lying in about 32 metres\, only a short run from Dover.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-leo-1940/
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:20260525T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T093000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T153000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T093000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260527T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260527T123000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T113000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260529T070000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260529T070000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260529T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260529T123000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T073000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T073000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T090445Z
UID:10000089-1780126200-1780126200@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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T133000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260531T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260531T080000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260503T112028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260503T112028Z
UID:10000145-1780358400-1780444799@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:Spring Tide
DESCRIPTION:Spring Tide marker for general dive planning around Dover. Use as guidance only. Final dive timings depend on skipper judgement\, weather\, sea state\, tidal data and site conditions.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/spring-tide-11/
CATEGORIES:Tide Planner
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260602T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260602T090000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162640Z
UID:10000092-1780390800-1780390800@mutinydiving.com
SUMMARY:SS Sea Serpent (1916)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Sea Serpent was a British steam cargo ship built in 1898 by A. McMillan & Son Ltd\, at Dumbarton\, for Leach & Co. Ltd. She was a compact but capable coastal and short-sea trader of 902 gross tons\, carrying the sort of unglamorous cargo that kept Europe moving while larger ships got all the applause\, because even history has favourites. On her final voyage she was bound from Liverpool to Dunkirk with a cargo of corrugated galvanised sheets. \nOn 23 March 1916\, Sea Serpent struck a mine laid by the German submarine UC-6\, commanded by Matthias Graf von Schmettow\, and sank off Folkestone Pier\, at approximately 51°02’N\, 01°12’E. At least two crewmen are recorded as lost: fireman George James Anderson\, aged 24\, and mess room boy Frederick William Barrow\, aged only 16. For divers\, this is a classic Channel war-loss: a modest merchant steamer\, a practical cargo\, a minefield off the Kent coast\, and a wreck with the quiet weight of ordinary men caught in extraordinary danger.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-sea-serpent-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/SS-Sea-Serpent.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260603T091500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260603T091500
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162711Z
UID:10000093-1780478100-1780478100@mutinydiving.com
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:20260604T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260604T093000
DTSTAMP:20260531T182016
CREATED:20260426T104641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T162729Z
UID:10000094-1780565400-1780565400@mutinydiving.com
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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