SS Port Dalhousie carried steel billets from Middlesbrough to Nantes, then UB-10 found her off Kentish Knock in 1916. This wreck dive follows a Canadian-operated cargo ship with early electric-drive history, a wartime cargo and a casualty record that still raises awkward questions.
SS Agnes Wyllie was a small iron steamer carrying pig iron from Middlesbrough to Caen when the Goodwin Sands took her on New Year's Day 1877. Ten of eleven crew died, one man survived, and the wreck still tells a grim Channel story with no battle, no mine and no mercy.
SS Luna survived the First World War, then sank after the peace, because the Dover Strait apparently keeps its own diary of grudges. Join this SS Luna wreck dive to explore a Dutch cargo steamer lost to a mine near the Goodwin Sands in 1919, with all hands saved and a ship's bell that helped reveal her name nearly 90 years later.
The SS Sabac wreck dive takes you to a Yugoslav cargo steamer lost in thick fog after a brutal collision off Dover in 1962. She sank in less than five minutes with bauxite in her holds and 33 crew aboard. Only five men survived. Twenty-eight died in the freezing Channel, and ten were never recovered. This is a deep Dover Strait wreck with a dark story, real history and no shortage of atmosphere.
You know the name Lusitania, but probably not this one. SS Lusitania sank off Folkestone in November 1915 after rushing to help survivors from the mined hospital ship HMHS Anglia. At about 30 metres, this forgotten Kent wreck tells a sharper local story than its famous namesake: a German minefield, a desperate rescue and a crew who survived after sailing straight into danger.
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.
