Dacorum Sub Aqua Club
Historical photos of sites we have dived
This page shows old pictures of some of the sites we have dived.
The following pictures come from Steve Johnson's Queen Victoria's Navy site which contains 3,000 photos of the naval, military and social history of Plymouth. It's well worth a visit.
You can enlarge an image by double clicking on it.
| HMS Hood, a Royal Sovereign class
pre-dreadnought of 1890s, sunk 1914 as blockship in 16m in Portland harbour.
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HMS Empress of India, a Royal Sovereign
class pre-dreadnought of 1890s, used as a target for gunfire tests and sunk using her own shells in
1913 in 42m in Lyme Bay.
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HMS Sidon, a 1950s submarine sunk in 35m in Lyme Bay as a sonar
target.
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HMS M2, a 1920s submarine, carrying a bi-plane in a hanger, sunk in
Lyme Bay in 30m with all its crew in 1932.
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Northcoates, armed trawler sunk off Littlehampton in WW2 in 30+m
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HMS Gurkha, a WWI torpedo-boat destroyer, sunk off Dungerness in 30+m
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