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  • SS Laristan & SS Denbishire

    SS Laristan (1899) & SS Denbighshire (1887)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    Close 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.

  • SS Loanda (1908)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    For 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.

  • Spring Tide

    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.

  • 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.

  • SS Filleight (1945)

    SS Filleigh (1945)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    At 05:55 on 18 April 1945, only weeks before the end of the war in Europe, Filleigh was torpedoed by U-245, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Schumann-Hindenberg, while in convoy off the North Foreland / Dover Strait area. The same attack also sank the Norwegian ship Karmt. Filleigh went down with the loss of five crewmen, while her master, 37 crew, 10 DEMS gunners and a Belgian pilot were rescued and landed at Dover. For divers, this is a powerful late-war wreck: a large cargo steamer, military cargo, a U-boat attack in the final days of the Battle of the Atlantic, and a site lying in about 50 metres. Not a casual potter, then. More a proper Channel wreck with teeth.

    Get Tickets £90.00 3 tickets left

  • Spring Tide

    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.

  • 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.

  • SS Mecklenburg (1916)

    SS Mecklenburg I (1916)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 27 February 1916, Mecklenburg was on passage from Tilbury to Vlissingen when she struck a mine near the Galloper Light Vessel, laid four days earlier by the German minelaying submarine UC-7, commanded by Georg Haag. She sank in about 30 minutes, but all aboard were saved. Dutch records give 49 passengers and 63 crew rescued, while another heritage summary gives 49 passengers and 75 crew, so the safest public wording is "all passengers and crew were rescued". For divers, this is a superb wartime passenger-steamer story: a neutral Dutch mail boat, a North Sea minefield, a rapid sinking, and a wreck tied directly to the dangerous wartime routes between Britain and the Low Countries. Elegant ship. Ugly ending. Very Channel.

    Get Tickets £120.00 4 tickets left

  • Spring Tide

    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.

  • 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.

  • Spring Tide

    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.

  • 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.

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