SS Unity was a 1,091 ton British railway steamer, built at Port Glasgow in 1902 for the Goole continental trade, and was sunk on 2 May 1918 while sailing from Newhaven to Calais with ordnance after being torpedoed by the German submarine UB-57, 9 miles south east of Folkestone.
HMT Cayton Wyke was lost on 8 July 1940 off Dover after being torpedoed and sunk by a German E-boat, with the loss of all 18 crew.
HMT Tranquil – FY 920 was an Admiralty minesweeping trawler, sunk on 16 June 1942 off the Downs near Deal after a collision with the British merchant vessel Deal.
The SS Sea Serpent was a 902-ton British coaster that struck a mine laid by German submarine UC-6 and sank off Folkestone Pier on 23 March 1916, with the loss of 14 crew; naval records place the wreck about 1 mile west of Folkestone Gate.
The Dutch steamship Castor was lost off Dungeness in 1894 after a collision in thick fog, adding another casualty to the crowded shipping lanes off Kent. She later gained unusual fame when divers found marble antiquities among her cargo, giving this Channel wreck a story far stranger than most.
SS Nunima was a British cargo steamer built in 1903 and lost in January 1918 after a collision in the English Channel. Today she lies upright and fairly intact, making her a compelling south-east coast wreck dive.
An offshore wreck with no name and no confirmed history. Just structure, silence, and questions waiting to be answered.
SS Carmen is a large, upright Channel freighter lost in thick fog in June 1963. Her size, intact structure and violent collision damage make her one of Dover’s standout deeper wreck dives.
SS Amplegarth was a steel steamship built in Sunderland in 1910 and lost off Dover in May 1918 after striking a mine laid by UC-71. She was carrying coal to St Nazaire, and her crew survived.
The SS Cuvier, a steel steamship of the late Victorian era, was lost in 1900 after a collision in the busy waters of the English Channel, a victim of fog, traffic, and unforgiving navigation
A small coastal steamer, cut in two in 1940. SS Efford now lies in two sections off Dover, offering a rare and compelling Channel dive.
HMS Flirt was a small, ageing destroyer of the Dover Patrol, lost in the First Battle of the Dover Strait in October 1916. She went down fighting, and those who served in her remembered her as a happy ship.