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SUMMARY:SS Maine (1914)
DESCRIPTION:The wreck known locally as the Perrier Wreck is believed to be the small steel steam coaster SS Maine\, lost off Dover on 2 April 1914 after a collision with the Spanish vessel José de Aramburu. She should not be confused with the larger and better-known SS Maine sunk off Devon in 1917. This Maine was a much smaller coastal cargo steamer\, recorded in local wreck references as a 439 GRT steel vessel\, around 50.5 m long with a beam of about 7.4 m\, built in 1900. \nHer final voyage ended near the Dover harbour approaches\, with the UKHO holding a 1914 record titled “Sinking of SS ‘Maine’ off Knuckle Light. Detached mole\, Dover harbour.” The recorded cause of loss was collision. Contemporary shipwreck summaries state that Maine collided with José de Aramburu in the English Channel and sank\, with her crew rescued by the Spanish vessel. No deaths are currently recorded in the accessible casualty summaries\, so this appears to have been a material loss rather than a fatal sinking. \nThe wreck’s local name comes from the cargo remains rather than the ship’s official identity. Divers know the site as the Perrier Wreck because of the bottles found across the wreckage\, including embossed bottles associated with Perrier and “Eaux Artificielles”. I have not yet found a formal cargo manifest\, so the safest wording is that bottled water formed an identifiable part of the cargo remains on the seabed\, rather than claiming a fully documented cargo of Perrier unless further archive material confirms it. \nFor divers\, that gives the site a neat little story. This is not a dramatic wartime torpedoing or a naval battle site. It is a pre-war Channel collision wreck\, sitting in one of the busiest and most awkward stretches of water in Britain. Its interest lies in the combination of Dover shipping history\, early twentieth-century coastal trade\, collision loss\, and the surviving artefact trail left by its cargo. It is a wreck where a modest coaster\, a navigation accident\, and a cargo of bottled water somehow created one of Dover’s more memorable local dive names.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-maine-1914/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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SUMMARY:SS Lusitania (1915)
DESCRIPTION:SS Lusitania: the forgotten Lusitania off Folkestone\nMost people hear “Lusitania” and think of the Cunard liner torpedoed off Ireland in May 1915. However\, Kent has its own Lusitania story. Six months after the famous RMS Lusitania sank\, the smaller British steamship SS Lusitania was lost off Folkestone during one of the most tragic rescue scenes in the Dover Strait. \nSS Lusitania was a British steam cargo vessel built at Blyth\, Northumberland\, by Blyth Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Most wreck records give her build year as 1903\, although one Lloyd’s Register Foundation catalogue entry appears to list 1902. Her precise launch date needs further confirmation from primary ship registers. At the time of her loss\, she belonged to J. Hall\, Jun. & Co. of London and was travelling from London to Cadiz with a general cargo. \nThe minefield off Folkestone Gate\nOn 17 November 1915\, the Dover Strait sat at the centre of Britain’s coastal war. German U-boats had begun using the narrow waters off Kent to lay mines\, disrupt traffic and threaten the vital cross-Channel routes. One of those submarines was UC-5\, a German coastal minelayer. During the night of 16 to 17 November\, UC-5 laid mines near Folkestone Gate\, a controlled passage through the defensive system near Dover. \nThat minefield first claimed HMHS Anglia\, a hospital ship returning from Boulogne to Dover with wounded soldiers\, medical staff and crew. Anglia struck a mine at about 12.30 pm\, roughly one mile east of Folkestone Gate. The explosion hit forward on the port side\, and the ship began to sink quickly by the bow. Reports differ on exact numbers\, but the loss took about 10 to 20 minutes and killed around 164 people. \nLusitania goes to the rescue\nSS Lusitania was nearby when Anglia struck the mine. Rather than stand off\, she moved in to help. Her crew lowered two rescue boats and began picking up survivors from the hospital ship. In doing so\, Lusitania became part of Anglia’s rescue effort\, alongside vessels including HMS Ure\, HMS Hazard\, HM Torpedo Boat No. 4\, Langton and SS Channel Queen. \nThen the rescue turned into a second disaster. While recovering survivors\, SS Lusitania also struck a mine and sank. Some of those pulled from Anglia’s wreck had to be rescued again after Lusitania went down. The detail gives this wreck its particular weight: Lusitania was not lost while fleeing danger\, but while moving towards it to save others. \nCasualties and survival\nUnlike the hospital ship Anglia\, SS Lusitania appears to have lost none of her own crew. The Maritime Archaeology Trust gives her crew as approximately 25\, all of whom survived. It also records that the last person to leave the ship was 14-year-old Assistant Steward Herbert Scott. \nThe wider disaster\, however\, carried a heavy human cost. Anglia lost more than 160 people\, including wounded soldiers\, medical staff and crew. The Maritime Archaeology Trust gives the losses as more than 160\, including ten medical staff and 25 crew. Wessex Archaeology cites an estimate of about 164 dead\, including one nursing sister\, nine RAMC staff\, four army officers\, 125 other ranks and 25 crew. \nThe wreck today\nToday\, the remains of SS Lusitania lie off Folkestone at about 30 metres\, within the same First World War wreck landscape as HMHS Anglia. The two wrecks form part of a dense concentration of Dover Strait losses from the submarine and mine warfare of 1915. The area gives divers more than metal on the seabed; it gives them a direct look at rescue\, risk and wartime seamanship compressed into one tide-swept patch of Kent water. \nFor divers\, SS Lusitania is not the famous Lusitania. That is the point. This is the local\, lesser-known wreck with the better Kent connection: a working cargo steamer\, a hospital ship disaster\, a German minefield and a crew who survived after trying to save others. It is a wreck with a name everyone knows\, and a story too few people do.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-lusitania-1915/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Local Wrecks
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SUMMARY:SS Sabac (1962)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Sabac wreck dive takes us to one of the Dover Strait’s most tragic post-war merchant ship losses. Sabac was a Yugoslav steam cargo ship of 2\,811 gross tons\, lost in thick fog after a collision near the Goodwin Sands in January 1962. She now lies in deeper Channel water\, with a story that links German shipbuilding\, wartime salvage\, Yugoslav trade and a bitterly cold night off Dover. \nSS Sabac wreck dive: history of the ship\nSabac began life in 1922 as Marie Leonhardt. Stettiner Oderwerke built her for the German shipping company Leonhardt & Blumberg. During the Second World War\, she suffered damage during an Allied air raid on Hamburg on 18 June 1944. After the war\, salvors raised and repaired her. She then entered Norwegian service as Skottnes\, before Yugoslav owners acquired her in 1947. \nUnder Yugoslav ownership\, the ship first traded as Susak. Later\, she received the name Sabac and joined the fleet of Kvarnerska Plovidba\, based in Rijeka. By 1962\, she was working as a practical cargo steamer rather than a glamorous ocean wanderer\, because even ships have to earn their keep somehow. \nOn her final voyage\, Sabac sailed from Ploce to Rotterdam with a cargo of bauxite. Lloyd’s Register records her loss under collision casualties for the first quarter of 1962\, noting the voyage\, cargo and location of the sinking. You can see the contemporary Lloyd’s record in the Lloyd’s Register Casualty Returns for 1962. \nThe collision and loss of Sabac\nLate on 7 January 1962\, Sabac entered the Dover Strait in dense fog. At around midnight\, she collided with the British motor vessel Dorington Court\, a much larger ship of about 6\,223 gross tons. The impact caused catastrophic damage. Contemporary accounts describe Sabac as badly holed\, and later local histories state that she was almost cut in two. \nThe ship sank in less than five minutes. That left the crew with almost no time to launch boats\, gather survival gear or escape the cold Channel water. Several nearby vessels joined the rescue\, including Dorington Court herself and the British Railways train ferry Hampton Ferry. However\, the fog made the search slow and difficult. \nDover and Walmer lifeboats launched after Coastguard alerts in the early hours of 8 January. The RNLI report for June 1962 records fog\, a light westerly wind\, smooth sea and high water. It also records parachute flares\, lifeboat searches\, reports from other vessels\, and support from aircraft. \nSabac carried 33 crew. Only five survived. Twenty-eight men died\, making the sinking one of the worst post-war merchant shipping tragedies in this part of the Channel. Croatian records name four of the dead from the Sibenik area: Sime Radovcic\, Sime Misurac\, Milivoj Vlahov and Rade Grbelja. Ten crew members were never recovered. \nWhat caused the loss?\nThe cause of loss was collision in thick fog. Sabac was on a commercial passage from Ploce to Rotterdam with bauxite cargo when Dorington Court struck her about six miles south-east of Dover. The force of the collision and the speed of flooding left Sabac fatally damaged. She sank before rescue vessels could reach most of her crew. \nFor divers\, the SS Sabac wreck dive is more than another deep metal wreck in the Dover Strait. It is a dive into a compact tragedy. The ship had already survived war damage\, salvage\, repair and several changes of name. Yet her final loss came from the old Channel enemies of fog\, traffic and poor visibility. \nDivers should expect a serious offshore wreck dive\, shaped by depth\, tide and Channel conditions. The wreck has been reported with recognisable structure\, including parts of the wheelhouse area\, domestic fittings and cargo-related remains. As ever\, look\, record and respect the site. This is a wreck with a human story\, not an underwater jumble sale with fins.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-sabac-1962/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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SUMMARY:SS Luna (1919)
DESCRIPTION:SS Luna wreck dive\nThe SS Luna wreck dive visits the remains of a Dutch cargo steamer lost near the Goodwin Sands in 1919. Luna had survived the First World War\, but the sea had not finished collecting its debts. On 21 August 1919\, she struck a mine while outward bound from Amsterdam to Lisbon with general cargo. \nThis makes the SS Luna wreck dive a fascinating post-war wreck rather than a direct battle casualty. The war had ended nine months earlier\, yet mines still threatened merchant shipping across the Dover Strait. Luna shows how the Channel remained dangerous long after the guns fell silent. \nThe ship before the sinking\nLuna was a steel screw steamer built in 1912 for the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij of Amsterdam. Historic England records her builder as Vuijk\, while Dutch maritime records identify the yard as A. Vuijk & Zn. at Capelle aan den IJssel. She measured 1\,269 gross tons and 743 net tons\, with a recorded deadweight of 2\,030 tons. \nShe worked as a general cargo vessel\, part of the practical Dutch merchant fleet that kept European trade moving through awkward waters. Although a detailed manifest for her final voyage has not yet surfaced\, records agree that she carried general cargo when she was lost. \nHow SS Luna was lost\nOn 19 August 1919\, Luna left Amsterdam for Lisbon. Two days later\, she struck a mine near the Goodwin Sands and sank. Some newspaper accounts gave conflicting route details\, yet the stronger wreck records place her final passage from Amsterdam to Lisbon. \nThe loss came after the Armistice\, so there was no skirmish\, no gunfire and no submarine attack. Instead\, Luna became a late casualty of the minefields left behind by the First World War. All 26 people aboard survived\, and reports state that they landed safely at Calais. \nYou can read the main wreck record through Historic England’s SS Luna entry. Further Dutch fleet context appears in Marhisdata’s 1919 maritime chronicle. \nThe wreck today\nThe wreck lies in Channel waters off Kent\, with survey records giving a least depth of around 36 to 37 metres and a seabed depth around 46 metres. Historic records describe an apparently coherent wreck structure\, with dimensions varying between surveys as the site was re-examined over time. \nIn 2008\, divers recovered a bell marked “LUNA 1912”\, helping confirm the wreck’s identity. For divers\, Luna offers a strong mix of history\, depth and atmosphere. She is a reminder that the Dover Strait does not need drama to be serious. It has tide\, traffic\, mines\, sandbanks and a long memory. \nAre you a Mutiny Diver? Book more dives.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-luna-1919/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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