Anglesey Shipwrecks

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
Mary Jane 1888 Rhoscolyn
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
George 1889 Carmel Head
SS Castillian 1943 Platters
Reviresco 1863 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
William Rushton 1850 offshore, collision
FV Kincorth 1921 offshore
SS Mona 1916 offshore
SS Gambhira 1943 offshore
SS Mermaid 1894 offshore
  Menai Straits
Conway 1953
MV Hoveringham II 1971

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