This is an index to wrecks discussed on other pages. It is not
comprehensive - just a list of some additional or interesting wrecks that I have found
in my researches.
See also list
of wrecks I have dived around Anglesey.
Anglesey wrecks:
Pwll Fanog
1550 Menai straits [historic, protected]
Ferry losses Menai Straits 1664, 1723, 1726, 1785,
1820, 1842
Unknown 1637 North coast.
Mary 1675 Skerries
[historic, protected]
Renard 1710 Holyhead Bay.
L'Iris 1778 near Beaumaris
Fame 1785 Red Wharf Bay.
Charlemont 1790 Holyhead.
St Patrick 1794 Amlwch
Young William 1802 Mallraeth
Sine 1818 Platters
Robert Bruce 1821 Cemaes Bay.
Alert 1823 West Mouse
Frances 1826 Red Wharf Bay.
Rothsay Castle 1831 Menai Straits.
Active 1835 Cemaes.
Sarah 1835 Porth Trecastell.
William 1836 Red Wharf Bay.
Scotia 1838 Penmon.
Governor Fenner 1841 Off Holyhead.
Mary Scott 1841 Point Lynas.
PS Monk 1843 Caernarfon Bar.
William Turner 1845 Caernarfon Bar.
Cymro and Cymraes 1847 Puffin Island.
Frankfield 1847 Cemaes Bay.
Chamberlain 1849 Penmon.
Athena 1852 Maldraeth.
Royal Charter 1859 near
Moelfre; and other vessels lost in same storm.
Holyhead wrecks, storms 1863 Westbourn,
Elizabeth, Confiance, Pearl, Harmony, Helen Campbell, etc.
1867 wrecks (Lydia Williams,
Bayadère, Scotland, Mary Elizabeth, Annie, George Walker,
Alexander Stewart, T.J. Southard)
1868 wrecks (Douglas Pennant,
Princess Amelia, Jabez, Craigrownie, Hero)
SY Aries 1880 Trearddur Bay
Flat Myra 1887 wrecked on Puffin Island -
Marine Biological Station.
SS Hildena 1918 north of Skerries.
SS Gleneden
1940 near Puffin Island.
Here is a list of some wrecks on the west coast [from S to N] of Anglesey
to South Stack - with input
from me in many cases [for information on diving this area see
Chris Holden's Books]
I have myself dived the Segontium, Bothilde Russ, Norman Court, Hermine, Havsø,
Missouri, Editor, Primrose Hill.
MV Grampian
Castle 1987 Caernarfon Bar
Hylton 1851
Caernarfon Bar
PS Monk 1843 Caernarfon Bar.
William Turner 1845 Caernarfon Bar.
MV Segontium
1984 Off Caernarfon Bar
Young William 1802 Malltraeth
Athena 1852 Malltraeth.
SS Watkins F
Nisbet 1940 Malltraeth
Eliza 1851
Malltraeth
MV Kimya 1991
and here Malltraeth
ex-HMS Express 1889 Aberffraw
SS Bothilde Russ 1903
Porth Cwyfan
SS Kyle Prince 1938
Aberffraw
Euphrates 1868
Trwyn Euphtrates
Earl of Chester
1867 S of Rhosneigr
Sarah 1835 Porth Trecastell.
Norman Court 1883
Cymyran Bay
Southern Cross 1855
Rhoscolyn Head
SS Havsø
1937 Maen Piscar
Hermine
1890 Ravens Point
SY Aries 1880 Porth y Post
John Bannerman 1855
Porth y Post
SS Arago 1866
Porth y Post
PS Glendower 1855
Porth Dafarch
Robert Bradford 1851
Porth Dafarth
SS Missouri 1886
Porth Dafarth
City of
Richmond 1881 Porth Ruffydd
John o'Gaunt 1854 Porth Rhufydd
Niagara 1875
Fangs
Tenby Castle 1889
Fangs
SS Kyle Firth 1940
Fangs
SS Mersey 1886 Fangs
SS Editor 1897 Fangs
Primrose Hill 1900
Abraham's Bosom
Some more Anglesey wrecks (from South Stack along West, North and East coast) that I have dived
on, or with input from me:
West coast
SS Harold 1908
Gogarth Bay
Kirkmichael 1894
Holyhead Breakwater
Cuba 1869
Holyhead Beakwater
SS Meath 1940
Holyhead bay
PS Town of Wexford 1852 Clippera Rocks
Brig Belgrave 1846, Penrhyn
SS Annie 1924 Church Bay
City of Chester
1898 Church Bay.
Hudiksvall 1890
Carmel Head
SS Castillian 1943 Platters
SS Angloman 1897 Skerries
Mary 1675 Skerries
SS Acme 1924 Offshore
SS Nautilus 1851 Offshore of Skerries
North coast
PS St Columba 1873, Skerries
SS Gulf of St
Vincent 1890 West Mouse
Minerva
1854, Victoria Rock [origin of name]
SS Edith Owen 1879
Coal Rock
SS Fawn 1886
Coal Rock
PSS Lord
Athlumney 1887 Coal Rock [More about Coal Rock wreckage].
Schooner Beresford
1843 Coal Rock
SS Olinda 1854
Harry Furlongs Rocks
SS Abbotsford 1875
Wylfa
SS Lady Windsor 1927 Cemaes
Schooner Oulton 1866,
Llanlleiana Head.
PSS Pansy 1917
Bull Bay
SS Dakota 1877
East Mouse
East coast
MV Bijou 1977
Off Point Lynas
MV Excel 1927
Off Point Lynas
Gipsy King 1869
Dulas Island
Royal Charter 1857 North of Moelfre
SS Delfina 1928
offshore
FV Cartagena 1928
offshore
FV Kincorth 1921
offshore
SS Mona 1916
offshore
SS Gambhira 1943
offshore
SS Mermaid 1894
offshore
Menai Straits
Conway 1953
MV Hoveringham II 1971