mkhari
28-08-2008, 13:18
Due to illness we have three places available on the Neptune out of Dover on Saturday 30th August. Meet at 07:45, ropes at 08:00. It looks like its going to be a nice day, temperature 20C and sunny all day.
Meet at Dover marina, the car park needs £5 in change. To get to the car park, turn onto Union street from the Price of Wales Roundabout on the A20, the car park is immediately on your right, before the swingbridge. http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=dover+marina&countryCode=GB#map=51.11934,1.31214|18|32&loc=GB:51.12987:1.311:14|dover%20marina|Dover,%20K ent,%20England,%20CT16%201
You can access the Neptune by going down the steps on the left of the office to the visitors pontoon.
PM me if you want a space or more details. At the moment there are nine on the boat.
The plan is as follows, but please remember this may change on the day depending on weather or visibility.
We will do two wrecks, the first will be the Thornhill and the second will be the Pomerania:
The following descriptions are from the Canterbury Divers website
Thornhill:
An Iron hulled steamship built in 1879 by Palmers & Co of Newcastle, 1493 Gross Tonne, [/font]owned by Chapman & Ness of Sunderland, she had 2 boilers powering a 2 Cylinder compound engine giving 140 HP. Her Captain was R Quiller and had a crew of 21; on a voyage from Blyth to Torre Annunziata she sank following a collision with the SS Lotus of Liverpool in a Westerly Force 3 wind on the 21 June 1890 .[/font]
Diving: This wreck sits upright on the seabed in a general max depth of 32-34m dropping off to 38m around the stern. The decks are effectively swept as all the superstructure is over the Starboard side on the seabed and she is generally 4-5m proud of the seabed. Her bow has broken off and point up to the surface standing up to 6m proud and she is facing down the channel. Her Starboard side is by far the more interesting as the Port side is generally plain outer Hull although there is a least 2 reasonable hole’s allowing access for a skinny diver into her holds which are full of coal and sand. She has been identified by the boss off of her wheel.
Pomerania:
This large ship was built in 1873 for the Hamburg-Amerika Line, she was an iron steamship of 3382-tons, measuring 120m x 14m. She had 600hp two-cylinder engines with single screw giving a top speed of 13 knots. The accommodation comprised of 100 1st, 70 2nd and 600 3rd class passengers.[/font]
The Pomerania was sailing from New York to Hamburg via Plymouth in November 1878; she stopped off at Plymouth to offload some of the passengers and $7500 gold and then continued her journey through the channel. Unfortunately as she was travelling off the coast of Folkestone, carrying 109 passengers and 111 crew, she was hit by the iron-hulled barque Moel Eilian just before midnight on the 25th November 1878. The Pomerania was badly damaged and immediately began taking on water. Four of the nine lifeboats were destroyed in the collision and the other five had to take all the crew and passengers, one of the lifeboats was so crowded that it too sank. The steamer Glengarry came to the Pomerania's aid and saved many of the passengers. The Pomerania then took so long to sink that some of the passengers returned to rescue their possessions, unfortunately the ship suddenly sank taking those people with her.
Diving: Highly rated, one of the best dives in the area. The wreck lies on the port side at 27m on a seabed of cobbles, gravel and shell fragments. She is well broken but parts of the wooden deck are still intact. Some gold and silver coins have been recovered from the passenger accommodation. Many clock mechanisms in boxes in holds. Visibility often a good 4m. The wreck supports a large amount of life including sponges, anemones, dead man's fingers, mussels, bib, wrasse, tompot blennies, edible and swimming crabs and starfish.
If you are interested, please PM me.
Meet at Dover marina, the car park needs £5 in change. To get to the car park, turn onto Union street from the Price of Wales Roundabout on the A20, the car park is immediately on your right, before the swingbridge. http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=dover+marina&countryCode=GB#map=51.11934,1.31214|18|32&loc=GB:51.12987:1.311:14|dover%20marina|Dover,%20K ent,%20England,%20CT16%201
You can access the Neptune by going down the steps on the left of the office to the visitors pontoon.
PM me if you want a space or more details. At the moment there are nine on the boat.
The plan is as follows, but please remember this may change on the day depending on weather or visibility.
We will do two wrecks, the first will be the Thornhill and the second will be the Pomerania:
The following descriptions are from the Canterbury Divers website
Thornhill:
An Iron hulled steamship built in 1879 by Palmers & Co of Newcastle, 1493 Gross Tonne, [/font]owned by Chapman & Ness of Sunderland, she had 2 boilers powering a 2 Cylinder compound engine giving 140 HP. Her Captain was R Quiller and had a crew of 21; on a voyage from Blyth to Torre Annunziata she sank following a collision with the SS Lotus of Liverpool in a Westerly Force 3 wind on the 21 June 1890 .[/font]
Diving: This wreck sits upright on the seabed in a general max depth of 32-34m dropping off to 38m around the stern. The decks are effectively swept as all the superstructure is over the Starboard side on the seabed and she is generally 4-5m proud of the seabed. Her bow has broken off and point up to the surface standing up to 6m proud and she is facing down the channel. Her Starboard side is by far the more interesting as the Port side is generally plain outer Hull although there is a least 2 reasonable hole’s allowing access for a skinny diver into her holds which are full of coal and sand. She has been identified by the boss off of her wheel.
Pomerania:
This large ship was built in 1873 for the Hamburg-Amerika Line, she was an iron steamship of 3382-tons, measuring 120m x 14m. She had 600hp two-cylinder engines with single screw giving a top speed of 13 knots. The accommodation comprised of 100 1st, 70 2nd and 600 3rd class passengers.[/font]
The Pomerania was sailing from New York to Hamburg via Plymouth in November 1878; she stopped off at Plymouth to offload some of the passengers and $7500 gold and then continued her journey through the channel. Unfortunately as she was travelling off the coast of Folkestone, carrying 109 passengers and 111 crew, she was hit by the iron-hulled barque Moel Eilian just before midnight on the 25th November 1878. The Pomerania was badly damaged and immediately began taking on water. Four of the nine lifeboats were destroyed in the collision and the other five had to take all the crew and passengers, one of the lifeboats was so crowded that it too sank. The steamer Glengarry came to the Pomerania's aid and saved many of the passengers. The Pomerania then took so long to sink that some of the passengers returned to rescue their possessions, unfortunately the ship suddenly sank taking those people with her.
Diving: Highly rated, one of the best dives in the area. The wreck lies on the port side at 27m on a seabed of cobbles, gravel and shell fragments. She is well broken but parts of the wooden deck are still intact. Some gold and silver coins have been recovered from the passenger accommodation. Many clock mechanisms in boxes in holds. Visibility often a good 4m. The wreck supports a large amount of life including sponges, anemones, dead man's fingers, mussels, bib, wrasse, tompot blennies, edible and swimming crabs and starfish.
If you are interested, please PM me.