The SS Dovre Collides with the SS Cuvier
The Dovre rammed the Cuvier in the starboard quarter around 5.00am that dark morning. Flooding quickly, she trapped sleeping crew in their bunks.
The Dovre rammed the Cuvier in the starboard quarter around 5.00am that dark morning. Flooding quickly, she trapped sleeping crew in their bunks.
The Maloja was about 2 nautical miles off Dover when her starboard quarter struck one of the mines laid by U-Boat SM UC-6.
Each carrying valuable cargoes, the sailing ship Khersonese and the barque Mindora fatefully collided on 27th November 1864 off Folkestone.
The air battle was watched by people from Abbott's Cliff, Dover, where British coal convoy CW8 took heavy losses from German dive bombers.