Immersed and Immured Traditional Cache

This cache is located at the entrance to St Saviour's Dock between Shad Thames and Jacob's Island.

The container is a large cliplock box with plenty of room for trackables. Please put the cache back as found.

You will get wet and/or dirty retrieving this cache so wear appropriate clothing. As this cache can be up to 4m underwater, please make sure that the container is properly sealed to make sure the contents stay dry.

You will need to refer to Thames Tide Tables before attempting this cache.

In the 18th century the Thames was so busy that ships could be stranded for weeks waiting for their cargo to be unloaded. The area became notorious for pirates who attacked the moored vessels. If caught, they were hanged at the mouth of this dock. The corpses would be placed on display further down the Thames as a deterrent to other pirates.

One of London's "lost rivers", the River Neckinger, meets the Thames at St Saviour's Dock. The river reputedly took its name from the "Devil's Neckinger" or "Devil’s Neckcloth", a slang term for a hangman's noose.

In Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Bill Sykes's den was located in the buildings adjacent to St Saviour's Dock. It is here that Sykes falls from a roof and dies in the mud, probably of St Saviour's Dock.

More recently, St Saviour's Dock was used a filming location for a speedboat sequence in The World Is Not Enough (1999)