Type :                             Motor Vessel  

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Wreck Information :    The wreck of MV Akka, the biggest wreck on the Clyde in the west coast of Scotland. Built Sweden 1942 The "AKKA" sunk in 1956 after hitting the Gantock rocks. She is still a very intact wreck and divers can swim with ease along the outside companion ways. She is 134 metres in length with a beam of 17 metres, a draft of around 8 metres and weighed in at 3,050 tons net with a gross weight of 5,400 tons and was Registered in Stockholm,  

Harbour / slip:              Inverkip marina 

Parking directions:    In the Marina

Distance to harbour: RIBs can be launched from the nearby marina at Inverkip. You can also hire a mooring to save on launching and retrieving your boat every day. Contact Tel. 01475 521 485 or look them up on the web at the Inverkip marina. From here its a five min 4.5 km RIB ride to the wreck. Or you can launch at no cost and a twenty minute 17 km RIB ride from the RNLI slip at Largs 

Lat / Long:                     N55 56.750 W4 54.417

Tides:                             Tide tables  

Chart:                            To follow

Depth:                           18-50m  

Dive Boat:                     Flying eagle     Seren Las   Fyne pioneer

Dive Shop:                    C&C Marine Services 

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Experience:                  Experienced sport diver   

Other comments:    From great wrecks of the Clyde:- A walkway curves around the circumference of the stern, with doors and portholes giving fascinating glimpses inside the wreck. Two kingposts and their derricks stood forward of this deckhouse and have been brought crashing down onto the deck by the clearance work. Standing on the deck here and peering over the side, the seabed is still some 15m below. The Akka has six cavernous holds, two aft of the bridge superstructure and four forward. The aftmost holds still have their covers on them, but the foredeck holds are open - bottomless black voids complete with their cargo of iron ore. The midships superstructure originally comprised the main deck house, promenade deck, boat deck and, at the very top, the navigating bridge deck. The 1956 clearance work, however, removed the top levels of this four-level superstructure. Beneath this deck house at shelter-deck level you find the galley, hospital, crew's mess, cook's quarters, pantry, and engineer's accommodation. Many items of crockery bearing the Akka's shipping line logo have been recovered from this area. On the main deck, walkways run along either side of this superstructure with gaping doorways opening into cabins and portholes. This is perhaps the most accessible area of the wreck. Forward of this superstructure, it is possible to drop down into the holds and pass through the gaping hole that was ripped out of the Akka's port side as she struck the Gantock Rocks in 1956. Scramble nets, flung over the side as the ship went down, are still draped over the port side amidships. At the very bow the fo'c'sle has two aft-facing doors allowing access to storerooms and the chain lockers.

Pub:                            Bar in the Marina 

Created by:              John Nicolson  

Date:                         30/4/07 

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