U-Boat SM UB-109 (1918)

SM UB-109 slipped through the Dover Barrage once, sank ships in the Atlantic, then returned to find the door had become a trap. This wreck dive follows a German U-boat blown apart by shore-controlled mines off Folkestone in 1918, with eight survivors and twenty-eight dead.

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U-Boat SM UB-55

U-Boat SM UB-55 (1918)

SM UB-55 left Zeebrugge in April 1918 and tried to force the Dover Barrage, but the minefield had other ideas. This SM UB-55 wreck dive follows a successful German U-boat blown open near Dover, with six survivors, thirty dead and a wartime wreck investigation that recovered her gun.

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U-Boat SM UB-33

U-Boat SM UB-33 (1918)

SM UB-33 tried to slip through the Dover Barrage in April 1918, but the Varne Bank minefield had other plans. This wreck dive follows a German UB II submarine lost with all 28 crew, later entered by Royal Navy divers who recovered secret code books from the dead boat.

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U-Boat SM UB-78

U-Boat SM UB-78 (1918)

SM UB-78 tried to force the Dover Strait in April 1918 and found the Barrage waiting. This wreck dive explores a German Type UB III submarine split by mines off Folkestone, with all 35 crew lost and a seabed identity muddle that took divers years to untangle.

U-Boat SM UB-109 (1918)

SM UB-109 slipped through the Dover Barrage once, sank ships in the Atlantic, then returned to find the door had become a trap. This wreck dive follows a German U-boat blown apart by shore-controlled mines off Folkestone in 1918, with eight survivors and twenty-eight dead.

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U-Boat SM UC-77

U-Boat SM UC-77 (1918)

SM UC-77 spent the war laying mines and sinking ships, then vanished during her own attempt to slip through the Dover Barrage in July 1918. This SM UC-77 wreck dive follows a German minelaying U-boat, 30 lost crew and a disputed final position that still keeps wreck researchers arguing like tired men in a harbour pub.

Großes Torpedoboot SMS G-85 (1917)

SMS G-85 came hunting in the dark, then met HMS Swift and HMS Broke in one of the Dover Strait's fiercest night actions. This wreck dive explores the remains of a German torpedo boat lost in 1917, after torpedoes, gunfire and ramming turned the Channel into a steel argument nobody was walking away from cleanly.

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HMS Flirt

HMS Flirt (1916)

HMS Flirt went to help stricken drifters during the 1916 Battle of Dover Strait, then German torpedo boats caught her at point-blank range. This wreck dive follows a Royal Navy destroyer lost in minutes, with sixty dead, nine survivors and one of the Dover Patrol's sharpest night-fighting stories.

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SMS G-85 Großes Torpedoboot

SMS G-85: German Large Torpedo Boat Sunk off Dover

G-85 was a German large torpedo boat, or Großes Torpedoboot, lost during the 1917 Dover Strait action involving HMS Swift and HMS Broke.

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HMS Flirt

HMS Flirt (1916)

HMS Flirt went to help stricken drifters during the 1916 Battle of Dover Strait, then German torpedo boats caught her at point-blank range. This wreck dive follows a Royal Navy destroyer lost in minutes, with sixty dead, nine survivors and one of the Dover Patrol's sharpest night-fighting stories.