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  • SS Maine (1914)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    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.

  • HMT Falmouth III

    HMT Falmouth III – FY152 (1915)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    A small Aberdeen-built fishing trawler became a Royal Navy minesweeper, then vanished in one of Dover’s deadliest First World War minefields. HMT Falmouth III, FY152 struck a mine laid by German submarine UC-5 on 19 November 1915, two days after the same field sank the hospital ship HMHS Anglia.

    The blast blew Falmouth III in half and killed seven men. Even more strangely, she is said to have sunk directly onto Anglia’s wreck before a storm later shifted her. A compact Dover Patrol wreck, a brutal Channel story, and another reminder that minesweeping was courage wrapped in thin steel.

  • HMT Lydian

    HMT Lydian – 162 (1915)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    A Milford Haven fishing trawler turned wartime patrol vessel, HMT Lydian was doing the dangerous work of the Dover Patrol when she struck a German mine off South Foreland on 18 September 1915. The mine had been laid by UC-6, one of the small German submarines turning the Channel into a hidden battlefield. Eight men died when Lydian sank. Today her wreck lies in about 23 to 24 m of water east of South Foreland, a compact but powerful First World War dive with a bell-confirmed identity, recovered artefacts and a brutal reminder that minesweepers often found mines the hard way.

  • SS Lusitania

    SS Lusitania (1915)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    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.

  • SS Sabac

    SS Sabac (1962)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    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.

  • MV Amdaman

    MV Andaman (1953)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 24 May 1953, Andaman collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune about 3 miles south of the South Goodwin Lightvessel. She began sinking, and her 38 crew abandoned ship into two boats. The Dover lifeboat launched, but the crew had already been picked up by the SS Arthur Wright, before being transferred to the lifeboat and landed at Dover. No lives were lost. For divers, Andaman is a fine post-war Channel wreck: a substantial Swedish cargo ship, lost in fog near the Goodwins, with a clean rescue story and enough size, structure and atmosphere to make her far more than a name on a chart.

  • SS Luna

    SS Luna (1919)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    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.

  • Großes Torpedoboot SMS G-85 (1917)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    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.

  • SS Carmen

    SS Carmen (1963)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    On 13 June 1963, Carmen was caught in thick fog in the Dover Strait and collided with the Turkish steamship Sadikzade, about 4.5 miles east of the South West Goodwin light buoy and 9.6 miles east of St Margaret’s Bay. She sank with the loss of two crewmen, while the collision set off an absurdly grim chain reaction: Sadikzade then collided with the Greek motor vessel Leandros, which in turn collided with the British tanker Clyde Sergeant. Today, Carmen lies upright and largely intact in around 44 to 45 metres, with her funnel around 30 metres and superstructure rising into the low 30s. For divers, she is a superb deeper Channel wreck: intact, dramatic, well identified, and carrying the unmistakable scar of a fog-bound collision in one of the busiest seaways on Earth.

  • SS Pommerania

    SS Pommerania (1878)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    Her final voyage ended in the Channel on the night of 25-26 November 1878, while returning from New York to Hamburg via Plymouth. Off Folkestone, she was struck amidships on the starboard side by the iron-hulled Welsh barque Moel Eilian, which was bound from Rotterdam to Cardiff. Four of Pommerania’s nine lifeboats were smashed in the collision, and she sank in less than half an hour. Sources vary slightly on the death toll, giving 48, 50 or 55 lives lost, but the scale of the disaster is beyond doubt. Today she lies in about 25 metres, a classic Channel liner wreck with machinery, scattered structure and real human history behind every plate and rib. For divers, this is Victorian steamship history at touching distance, and considerably more exciting than another tidy spreadsheet pretending to be a wreck.

  • SS Cuvier Underwater

    SS Cuvier (1900)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    SS Cuvier was carrying cargo for Brazil when SS Dovre tore into her near the Dover Strait in 1900. Within five minutes she had gone, leaving three survivors clinging to a capsized boat and at least 26 men lost in one of the Channel's sharpest civilian wreck tragedies.

  • HMS Brazen - H80

    HMS Brazen – H80 (1940)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    Her end came on 20 July 1940, when she was attacked by German aircraft off Dover while engaged on Channel convoy duties. Badly damaged in the air raid, HMS Brazen later sank in the English Channel, where her wreck now lies in about 30 metres of water at roughly 51°01'N, 1°17'E. Contemporary naval records note that one member of her ship’s company was killed. For divers, Brazen is a classic south-east coast war wreck: a sleek destroyer, a Battle of Britain era loss, and a site where the story of Britain’s desperate Channel defence still clings to the metal.

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