USS LST-496 and 523
US National Archives Photo # 80-G-252172
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2023-05-10
Two Tugs
HMS ISIS with HMS Duncan in the background- Imperial War Museum Southsea Sub-Aqua Club’s 2019 expedition project ‘Two Tugs’ continues our desire to learn more about the WW2 Allied invasion…
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2019-12-13
No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave
This project centres on the loss of a particular vessel during the Normandy operations, a British Landing Craft (Headquarters) sank on 25 June 1944 after a striking a mine. Royal Navy…
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2018-12-16
Project CATO
USS Revenge (AM-110), an Auk class minesweeper of World War II. The project centres on a British minesweeper HMS Cato (J16), sunk off the Normandy beaches on D-Day. HMS Cato (J16) was…
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2018-11-14
Project Cardonnet
Project Cardonnet aims to investigate and record the WW2 Operation NEPTUNE wrecks of the Banc du Cardonnet, located in the Baie de Seine, Normandy. This ambitious project investigated two wrecks…
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2017-12-16
Mulberry 70
In the years leading up to 2015, divers from Southsea Sub-Aqua Club (SSAC) completed three projects to investigate, dive and record wrecks along the South Coast of England that played…
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2015-05-18
Normandy 70
Normandy 70 is an expedition by Southsea Sub-Aqua Club to dive and record wrecks of associated with the maritime phase of WW2 Allied invasion of Normandy otherwise known as Operation…
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2015-04-18
Kedge Hook HM LCT 427
His Majesty’s landing craft tank (LCT) 427 sank at 03:03 on 7th June 1944 at Spitbank Gate as she approached her home port. LCT 427 was returning to Portsmouth after…
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2012-05-19
Neptune Wrecks
Our detailed research into the formerly Top Secret war diaries and files finally revealed the story behind their sinking. The tanks and bulldozers had been lost from LCT(A) 2428, when…
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2009-05-19
Tanks and Bulldozers
A team of divers from Southsea Sub-Aqua Club set out to solve the mystery of how two tanks, two bulldozers and a field gun, believed to be linked to D-Day…
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2008-10-19