Before the First World War had even begun, the small steel coaster SS Maine met her end off Dover after colliding with the Spanish vessel José de Aramburu on 2 April 1914. Her crew survived, but the ship went down near the harbour approaches, leaving behind a wreck now better known by a far more memorable name.
Divers call her the Perrier Wreck because of the bottles scattered through the site. A collision, a lost coaster, and a seabed full of fizzy-water history. Dover wreck diving does like to keep things gloriously odd.
