The D Day Ship That Never Reached Normandy | Diving SS Sambut

On D-Day, June 6th 1944, the SS Sambut was carrying troops, vehicles, ammunition and fuel across the Channel — and never made it to Normandy. German coastal guns at Calais tore into her, then the Royal Navy finished the job with a torpedo rather than let a burning, explosive-laden wreck drift into the invasion fleet. 136 men were lost. 82 years later, she's still standing upright off Dover — one of the most intact wrecks in the Channel. In this dive I'm joined by Will and Pete (thanks to Chris Webb and Mutiny Divers for the boat) to go inside her: the telemotor helm that once steered her, cooked-off 20mm anti-aircraft rounds, forks and crockery from the men who lived aboard her, and the cargo mast still standing over the wreck. Rust tells a story. This one's about a ship that was sunk twice in one day — once by the enemy, once by her own side. I dived with Mutiny Diving (Chris Webb) from Dover who I cannot recommend highly enough - https://mutinydiving.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *Chapters* 0:00 D-Day and the Sinking of SS Sambut 1:22 Diving Dover's Most Intact Wreck 2:18 Meet the Team, Dive Prep & Conditions 6:08 Rigging the Shot Line & Testing Dive Computers 13:35 First Porthole Discovery 15:09 Descending Into the Wreck 17:06 The Tele Motor Helm & Personal Relics 24:09 The Bridge, Cargo Mast & Ascent ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━