The Quail, an excellent dive & one of my favourites.  She was built in 1870 by Palmers in Jarrow for the  Cork Steamship Co, the Quail joined their fleet of  ships which were all named after birds. She left  Antwerp in August 1886 with a general cargo that  included glassware, wool & potted foods.

It was later when she was 14miles SW of Brighton in dense fog  that she had a collision with the French steamer San  Martin, striking the Quail on the stbd bow, the ship  sank within 15minutes with the loss of 1 life.

Today the wreck sits upright and mainly intact apart  from her bow which sits there, broken off but pointing  skywards. As you swim into the holds and up onto the  superstructure, you see the remains of the cargo especially the broken glassware, pub rummers.