The Wrecks

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,

dive this wreck There are wrecks that sink slowly and settle quietly. And then there are those that record, in their very structure, the moment they were lost. SS Efford

SS Cuvier was an iron Lamport & Holt steamer built in 1883 at Hebburn and lost on 9 March 1900 after collision with the Norwegian steamer Dovre off the East

dive this wreck There are wrecks that disappeared into the Channel almost without ceremony, and yet still carry the weight of a far larger story. SS Amplegarth is one of

dive this wreck There are some wrecks that need no embellishment. SS Carmen is one of them. She lies approximately 12 miles out of Dover, large, upright and still deeply

dive this wreck There are wrecks that announce themselves with violence, and there are those whose story sits more quietly on the seabed, waiting to be read properly. SS Nunima