Dover Marina

For divers, Loanda is one of those wrecks that rewards curiosity as much as good buoyancy. She lies upright in roughly 17 to 23 metres, standing several metres proud, with exposed engine remains, an intact propeller, and a cargo story worthy of a Victorian dockside whisper. Reports mention gin and champagne bottles, clay pipes, perfume bottles, trading beads, and the persistent tale of newly minted shillings, although the shilling story is not supported by the manifest. It’s shallow, atmospheric, artifact-rich and very much a slack-water dive, the kind of Dover wreck where every broken bottle and clay pipe feels like it has been waiting 116 years to be noticed.