Welcome to Grimsby & Cleethorpes Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC 37). We’re a friendly dive club catering for all levels of diver from try dives to North Sea wreck dives.
Our club meets every Thursday evening at Cleethorpes Leisure Centre
email: [email protected]
03/09/2026
Another outing for the club recently, this time on ‘Rayford’, a collier class steamer that sank after a collision in fog. This one carries some BSAC 37 history, details of which can be found in the photos and info.
24/08/2026
Some photo’s and info of our recent dive on Corinth. Plenty to see including the anchor, exposed boilers, parts of the engine as well as plenty of marine life.
Video’s in comments.
19/08/2026
In the midst of this heatwave it’s safe to say we’re missing the great time on last month’s club expedition to the Channel Islands (Guernsey🇬🇬, Jersey🇯🇪 and Sark🇨🇶).
Lasting 5 days, 10 club members enjoyed 5 days of diving , with near perfect conditions throughout with dives across 3 of the Channel Islands and 1 dive on the Alex Van Opstel, near the coast of Portland. Providing great diving for all, especially for those looking to continue their progression to Dive Leader.
If you’re interested by SCUBA diving and in the Grimsby region get in contact with us via DM or Email to start to journey today.
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Here's a great video of 'Winga' which was filmed by a club member on our last club dive in the North Sea, just short of the wind turbines off Cleethorpes Seafront. The video shows the ships boiler, both propellors, the gun, decks, sides of the ship as well as an abundance of marine life. A really good dive with great visibilty.
WINGA
Type of Ship: Cargo (Collier)
Gross Register Tonnage (GRT): 1.174
Size: 73.2m long, 10.1m beam, 4.9m depth
Engine: Three-cylinder triple expansion engine, single boiler, single shaft.
Builder: Hamilton Wm. & Co. Ltd.
Launched: 28/12/1906
Owner: Scandinavian Shipping Co. Ltd. (Glen & Co. Mgrs)
Captain: J. Brooks
Date of Loss: 29/01/1918
Last Voyage: Hull, England for Sunderland, England
Cargo: In ballast
How lost: Collision
Casualties: 0
Reference: 53 37 413 N - 00 22 871 E, 6 miles NE from Spurn Point
Winga was a British, steel hulled, schooner rigged steamship built and registered in Glasgow, Scotland by Hamilton Wm. & Co. Ltd. for Glen & Co. Ltd. with her engine being manufactured in the same City by Rowan David & Co. Ltd. She comprised of a single deck, a well deck, four watertight bulkheads and a superstructure made up of a 23-metre quarter deck, a 25-metre bridge deck and an 8-metre forecastle. At some point during her life, she was sold to the Scandinavian Shipping Co. but remained under the management of Glen & Co. Her yard No. was 185 and was launched on the River Clyde under official No. 121298.
On the 29th of January 1918, Winga under the command of Captain J. Brooks was making the short journey from Hull to Sunderland in ballast (empty of cargo) when she foundered 6 miles N.E of Spurn Point near Sand Hole after suffering extensive structural damage in a collision with the 1,599-ton Swedish registered steam ship Crimdon. All nineteen of her crew members were safely brought ashore. Crimdon was unscathed in the collision but was torpedoed and sunk 2.5 miles east of Whitby Lighthouse in July of the same year by German submarine UC-40.
Winga was identified after BSAC 37 member Roger Chamley recovered a Hamilton Wm. & Co. Ltd makers plate from the wreck on the 30th of July 1983, her bell was recovered a few years later after it was found lying in the sand. She has been swept clear a few times since sinking but much of her remains, including her boiler, anchor, both her main and reserve propellors and her large gun. Large sections of the ship protrude from the gravel and shells that she rests on, making her a magnet for marine life.
13/08/2026
Apparently it’s kinda chic to be a member of a dive club these days.
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In the Grimsby and Cleethorpes area and ready for all the above? Send us a DM or email [email protected] to find out more.
12/08/2026
Last Saturday, we had intentions to dive Katina Bulgaris, a Greek steamer but even though the day was perfect, the sea conditions weren’t so we shortened our range with one boat going for Dido, the other for Winga. The latter we managed to get some pretty good pictures of. Info on the wreck can be found in the pictures.
Superb dive!
See comments for info on Dido.
09/08/2026
A busy weekend for us with three dives in two days, the first being on ‘Box Hill’ a steamer which was mined in 1939, resulting in the loss of all hands.
05/08/2026
Some of our club members swapped Monday blues for the blues of Stoney Cove this past Monday with some of our divers experiencing 20+ metres for the first time, progressing to 30+ metres.
A nice chilled out day's diving in perfect British weather.
31/07/2026
On Friday last week we managed to ‘nip out’ to a wreck that as far as we know, BSAC 37 has never dived before. We’ve been looking at diving Empress for a while with conditions never allowing but the tides and the stars finally aligned and twelve of our club members managed to dive her. Visibility wasn’t great but much better than anticipated with the wind we had a few days before. A superb dive, nonetheless and we’ll definitely be back.
Info and pictures of the dive as well as crew member Pete offering some pre dive history of the wreck in the video in the comments.