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  • SS Mount Stewart (1894)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    Her 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.

  • Neap Tide

    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.

  • HMT Saxon Prince

    HMT Saxon Prince – FY262 (1916)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 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.

  • SS Leo (1940)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 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.

  • HMT Corona – FY1137 (1916)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 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.

  • HMT Carlton – FY1965 (1916)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 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.

  • SS Cuvier

    SS Cuvier (1900)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 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.

  • HMT La Nantaise – FY360 (1945)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    By 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.

  • SS Valuta

    SS Valuta (1886)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 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.

  • HTM Othello II

    HMT Othello II – FY1193 (1915)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 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.

    £70.00
  • HMT Saxon Prince

    HMT Saxon Prince – FY262 (1916)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 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.

    £70.00
  • SS Unity

    SS Unity (1918)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 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.

    £80.00
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