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.
At 05:55 on 18 April 1945, only weeks before the end of the war in Europe, Filleigh was torpedoed by U-245, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Schumann-Hindenberg, while in convoy off the North Foreland / Dover Strait area. The same attack also sank the Norwegian ship Karmt. Filleigh went down with the loss of five crewmen, while her master, 37 crew, 10 DEMS gunners and a Belgian pilot were rescued and landed at Dover. For divers, this is a powerful late-war wreck: a large cargo steamer, military cargo, a U-boat attack in the final days of the Battle of the Atlantic, and a site lying in about 50 metres. Not a casual potter, then. More a proper Channel wreck with teeth.
SS Unity was carrying ordnance to Calais when UB-57 found her off Folkestone in May 1918. This wreck dive follows a Goole steamer, a deadly Channel crossing, twelve lost crew and a seabed that still holds the small personal traces of a wartime voyage cut short.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.
