Dive This Wreck Some wrecks arrive in history with gunfire, explosions and grand naval drama. Hydaspes did not. She slipped into disaster in a bank of Channel fog, with whistles sounding,…
Dive This Wreck Some wrecks belong to the beginning of wars. They carry the first shock. The first newspaper panic. The first lists of missing men read aloud in kitchens…
Dive This Wreck There are wrecks that announce themselves with drama. There are wrecks that arrive with a thunderclap, a list of dead, and a national memory that refuses to…
Dive This Wreck There are wrecks that announce themselves. They arrive in the record with clean dates, tidy causes, and a clerk’s confidence. SM UB-78 did no such thing. She…
Dive This Wreck There are wrecks that announce themselves with certainty. They arrive with brass plates, Admiralty records, clean coordinates and the sort of tidy provenance that makes archivists smile…
Dive This Wreck Lying around 5 miles south of Dover, the wrecks of SS Laristan and SV Denbighshire form one of the Channel’s more unusual dive sites. Two vessels, lost…
Dive This Wreck HMT Étoile Polaire had a short and brutal career. She was built by J. T. Eltringham & Co. at Willington Quay, yard number 308, launched on 4…
Dive This Wreck In 1864, the sailing vessel Mindora met her end in the busy waters of the English Channel, a stretch of sea that has claimed countless ships through…
Dive This Wreck On 24 May 1953, the Swedish motor vessel Andaman was on passage from Gothenburg to Calcutta when she collided in thick fog with the Panamanian freighter Fortune…
Dive This Wreck There are ships that become famous because they were large, modern, or victorious. HMS Flirt was none of those things. She was a small, hard-worked, pre-war destroyer,…
