This slightly deeper steamer wreck, sunk off Anglesey in the 19th century, offers divers a wide variety of intriguing cargo to inspect. JOHN LIDDIARD conducts
Wreck Tours
Explore the finest diveable wrecks around the UK in detail with our Shipwreck Tours – John Liddiard’s expert diving descriptions combined with Max Ellis’s fine illustrations provide the perfect set of wreck-dive previews.
You’ll feel as if you’re diving alongside our content creators on these 19th and 20th-century shipwrecks, from cargo steamers to warships, subs to lightships – and when you get to dive these sites for real, your Shipwreck Tours briefing will ensure that you get the utmost from the experience!
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A trio of attractions grouped together in Portland Harbour and associated with WW2’s D-Day landings grab JOHN LIDDIARD’s attention this month. Illustration by MAX ELLIS
Sixty-three Wreck Tours have passed come and gone since we visited a Castle-class trawler wreck off Dartmouth. JOHN LIDDIARD feels that enough time has passed
He isn’t one for wild over-statements, but JOHN LIDDIARD rates this French cruiser in the Channel as one of his all-time favourites Illustration by MAX
The sinking of this French steamer off Brittany in 1917, reportedly by a long-vanished U-boat, was part of a great WW1 mystery. JOHN LIDDIARD conducts the tour.
This month brings a tour of a small wreck with a big reputation on Scotland’s east coast – a trawler that sank in the 1990s. JOHN LIDDIARD leads the tour.
It’s back to England and the easily accessible wreck of the Cairndhu off Sussex for this month’s tour. At 29m down, it’s a wreck most divers can enjoy, says JOHN LIDDIARD.
This WW1 victim provides a deeper wreck than some off Dorset, so you’re less likely to have to share it with the masses. It’s well worth a visit, says JOHN LIDDIARD.
This tour is a double treat, as JOHN LIDDIARD samples two wrecks rolled into one South-west dive site suitable for all levels of diving.
This month our tour explores another of the Kyarra‘s lesser-known near-neighbours off Swanage, the Castlereagh – also referred to by its former name, the Firth
In the first of a major new series, JOHN LIDDIARD guides us round one of Devon’s most popular wreck sites. Illustration by MAX ELLIS The
The 2363 ton steamship Rondo was sheltering from a storm on the night of 25 January, 1935, anchored near Tobermory.
This World War One U-boat victim was built on the Clyde but intended to navigate shallow South American rivers, so it has some unusual features,
The big Dutch cargo ship, sunk in World War II, is Scotland’s most popular wreck. That means it can get crowded, but JOHN LIDDIARD’s guide
A great British favourite finally gets its turn in the spotlight this month, as JOHN LIDDIARD looks at a liner that sank during WW1 off
It’s not just about the Kyarra wreck out of Swanage – this one may be small and hard to find but it’s beautifully marked, says
WE RETURN to the north coast of Pembrokeshire and a wreck of three halves! The paddle-steamer Nimrod was swept onto the rocks on 27 February, 1860, breaking its back pretty much where the paddle-shaft ran across the ship.
An old Weymouth favourite, the 5965-ton Belgian motor ship Alex Van Opstal, an early casualty of World War Two. It was sunk by a mine on 15 September, 1939, just 15 days after the German invasion of Poland.
In a remote location in the Western Isles there lies the intact wreck of a 1950s steamship. John Liddiard explores
UC-70 was a small U-boat, just 417 tons and 49m long. The armament included an 88mm gun, two forward-facing and one aft-facing torpedo tubes.
One of the most dived wrecks in Wales lies off the coast of Pembrokeshire by Skomer Island. John Liddiard shows
The flattened wreckage of this ship, spread across the seafloor, is a testament to its violent and tragic end. John