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SUMMARY:SS Agnes Wyllie (1877)
DESCRIPTION:SS Agnes Wyllie wreck dive\nThe SS Agnes Wyllie wreck dive explores the story of a small British iron screw steamer lost on the Goodwin Sands in 1877. Agnes Wyllie was carrying pig iron from Middlesbrough to Caen when she wrecked on New Year’s Day. Ten of her eleven crew died\, and one man survived after rescue by pilot schooner No. 4. \nThis SS Agnes Wyllie wreck dive has a bleak Channel story behind it. There was no battle\, no mine and no submarine. Instead\, a heavily laden coastal steamer met the Goodwins\, one of the most dangerous sandbanks in British waters. \nSS Agnes Wyllie wreck dive: the ship before the loss\nSS Agnes Wyllie was an iron screw steamer built in 1871. ShipIndex records her as a 302 gross ton steamer with the official number 65051. CLIP records also show Agnes Wyllie registered at Barrow in 1871 as a steam vessel. \nWrecksite attributes the steamer to Richardson\, Duck & Co. Ltd. of Thornaby\, Stockton-on-Tees. That fits the wider industrial setting of her final voyage. She sailed from Middlesbrough\, one of the great iron ports of the period\, bound for Caen in northern France. \nHer cargo was pig iron. This was a dense and unforgiving cargo\, and nineteenth-century debates often focused on whether iron cargoes had been loaded and stowed safely. However\, in the Agnes Wyllie case\, the Wreck Commissioners concluded that blame attached to no one. \nThe loss on the Goodwin Sands\nOn 1 January 1877\, Agnes Wyllie wrecked on or near the Goodwin Sands. Wrecksite places the loss about 3 miles east of the East Goodwin Lightvessel. Other shipwreck records describe the steamer as wrecked on the Goodwin Sands while sailing from Middlesbrough to Caen. \nThe Goodwins had already claimed many vessels before Agnes Wyllie reached them. These shifting banks sit beside busy Channel routes\, and they combine tide\, shoal water and poor sea room with almost vindictive efficiency. Victorian steam did not remove that danger. It merely gave ships a louder way to reach it. \nThe loss was severe. Ten of the eleven crew died\, and the single survivor was rescued by pilot schooner No. 4. I have not found a reliable accessible list of the dead\, so the men should be remembered here by number rather than guessed names. \nHansard later mentioned Agnes Wyllie during a parliamentary exchange about another iron-laden Middlesbrough steamer. The President of the Board of Trade stated that the Wreck Commissioners had concluded the Agnes Wyllie case and found no blame attached. You can read that exchange in Hansard’s 13 March 1877 record. \nThe wreck today\nFor divers\, Agnes Wyllie offers a compact but powerful Victorian wreck story. She was small\, workmanlike and loaded with industrial cargo. However\, her loss shows how dangerous the Kent coast remained even for steam-powered vessels trading on routine routes. \nThe wreck also sits in a broader pattern of Goodwin Sands losses. These were not always dramatic naval events. Many were ordinary commercial voyages that ended when tide\, cargo\, visibility\, navigation or bad luck made the final decision. Agnes Wyllie belongs firmly in that hard working\, hard lost category. \nFurther vessel identification is complicated by another ship of the same name. The wreck we are discussing is the iron screw steamer\, official number 65051\, rather than the later wrecked wooden schooner. For basic vessel indexing\, see ShipIndex’s Agnes Wyllie entry. \nAre you a Mutiny Diver? Book more dives.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-agnes-wyllie-1877/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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SUMMARY:SS Port Dalhousie (1916)
DESCRIPTION:SS Port Dalhousie wreck dive\nThe SS Port Dalhousie wreck dive explores a First World War cargo ship lost off Kentish Knock in 1916. Port Dalhousie was sailing from Middlesbrough to Nantes with steel billets when German submarine UB-10 torpedoed her. The attack sank a Canadian-operated ship with an unusually interesting engineering history. \nThis SS Port Dalhousie wreck dive is more than another wartime merchant loss. Before she became Port Dalhousie\, she was built as Tynemount by Smith’s Dock at Middlesbrough. She had also been linked with early diesel-electric propulsion\, which gives this wreck a technical story as well as a wartime one. \nSS Port Dalhousie wreck dive: the ship before the war\nSmith’s Dock Co. Ltd. built the vessel at Middlesbrough in 1913. She was completed for the Electric Marine Propulsion Co. Ltd. as Tynemount. From 1914\, she was owned by Reuben A. McLelland of Kingston\, Ontario\, and carried the name Port Dalhousie. \nHer design aimed at St Lawrence River and Great Lakes trading. Great Lakes vessel history describes her as a canal-size bulk freighter\, about 78 m long overall\, with a beam of about 12.9 m. However\, her original diesel-electric machinery did not suit the expected service\, so she was later repowered with more conventional equipment. \nBy 1915\, the war had pulled her away from lake and river trading. She left Great Lakes service and moved into wartime sea work. As a result\, a vessel built for inland and coastal commercial use found herself exposed to the U-boat campaign off the east coast of England. \nThe sinking off Kentish Knock\nOn 19 March 1916\, Port Dalhousie was bound from Middlesbrough to Nantes with a cargo of steel billets. Steel billets were semi-finished metal products\, useful for further rolling and manufacturing. In wartime\, cargo like this had obvious industrial value. \nGerman submarine UB-10\, commanded by Reinhold Saltzwedel\, attacked her near the Kentish Knock Light Vessel. Uboat.net places the sinking about 2 miles south-half-west of the light vessel. The torpedo hit ended her voyage before she could reach France. \nThe casualty record needs careful handling. Uboat.net records 19 casualties\, while memorial-based research currently identifies 12 named dead. Those named include Master William Butler\, Chief Engineer Charles Rolli Bydder\, Second Mate James Graham Farrow and several crewmen from Britain\, Canada\, Norway\, Jamaica and the West Indies. \nYou can read the attack summary in Uboat.net’s Port Dalhousie record. A memorial-based casualty list appears in Benjidog’s Merchant Navy Memorial research. \nThe wreck today\nPort Dalhousie gives divers a compact First World War merchant wreck with a strong Kent coast setting. The story connects Middlesbrough shipbuilding\, Canadian ownership\, Great Lakes trading\, industrial cargo and the U-boat war in one wreck. \nThat makes the dive historically rich without needing to overcook the drama. A cargo ship left Middlesbrough with steel for France. A small German coastal submarine found her near Kentish Knock. Then the Channel did what the Channel does best: kept the evidence and made everyone else argue over the details. \nAre you a Mutiny Diver? Book more dives.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-port-dalhousie-1916/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
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