Type: German 998 ton, 262ft long, beam 47ft container ship.

Picture:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Wreck Information: She struck the dock wall leaving Liverpool on 25 September 1988. The holds had flooded to the point where the crew were evacuated by helicopter and the Ardlough sank. She was bound from Liverpool for Belfast in September 1988. The bow and stern stand up from the seabed and midships has colapsed.

Cargo: Steel in the shape of bars, sheet and rods, coal, rolls of newsprint, tobacco, biscuits, foam blocks, drums of hydrogen peroxide and sodium hypochlorite, and one container of low-level radioactive material routed to Belfast. Some of the containers were never found.

Harbour / slip: Anglesy

Parking directions:

Distance from harbour: 21m

Site Hazards: Strong currents.

Lat & Long: The South Cardinal buoy is 53 34.780N, 003 50.440W 16 miles north of Great Orme's Head

Chart: Admiralty Chart 1978,

Depth: 43m and is 17m high. She was wire-swept to 16m in 1993.

Tides:   Slack water is at high water and low water Liverpool  Tide tables

Diveboat: ... Quest Diving     Julie-Anne

Diveshop:.... Anglesey divers

Accommodation:

Suggested experience:

Other comments: Surrounding the wreck on the sea bed are the containers which were on the deck and the entire stern section of the wreck is tilted aft and to starboard.

Pub:

Created by:   Finstrokes

Date: 7/7/07

Revision: 1 

Thanks To:

Links:   Link

Underwater photos: If you have any .. Contact me

Wreck diagram:

Dive Report:   Contact me