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  • 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.

  • 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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