No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
SV Carron crossed the Atlantic from New Orleans with a cargo of oilcake, only to be lost almost within reach of home after a collision near the Goodwin Sands. This SV Carron wreck dive follows the trail of a Victorian barque, a Spanish vessel called Bilboa and one of the Dover Strait's busiest nineteenth-century traffic zones.
Her final voyage ended in the Channel on the night of 25-26 November 1878, while returning from New York to Hamburg via Plymouth. Off Folkestone, she was struck amidships on the starboard side by the iron-hulled Welsh barque Moel Eilian, which was bound from Rotterdam to Cardiff. Four of Pommerania’s nine lifeboats were smashed in the collision, and she sank in less than half an hour. Sources vary slightly on the death toll, giving 48, 50 or 55 lives lost, but the scale of the disaster is beyond doubt. Today she lies in about 25 metres, a classic Channel liner wreck with machinery, scattered structure and real human history behind every plate and rib. For divers, this is Victorian steamship history at touching distance, and considerably more exciting than another tidy spreadsheet pretending to be a wreck.
