Anglesey Wreck Map
2 wrecks in Anglesey, United Kingdom. Recorded depths: 16–48 m. View on map
SS Cork
Two torpedoes, five minutes, twelve dead. On 26 January 1918 the SS Cork, built for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company's cross-channel trade, was on her way across the Irish Sea from Dublin to Liverpool with sheep, horses and cattle aboard when SM U-103 attacked. One torpedo struck her engine room. A second hit close to the foremast and wrecked a lifeboat, taking away any margin for escape. Barely five minutes after she was hit she had gone, nine nautical miles northeast of Point Lynas, Anglesey, and seven passengers and five crew went with her. She lies upright and largely intact in the Irish Sea at 48 metres, a well-preserved record of cross-channel commerce in the early 20th century.
SS Missouri
Of all the ships lost close to the shore along Anglesey's west coast, none was bigger than the Missouri. A Warren Line steamer rigged as a barque, she was driven onto the beach at Porth Dafarch by a blizzard in March 1886, laden with a cargo as varied as a Victorian general store's stock: live cattle, thousands of bales of cotton, sacks of flour, hides and palm oil. She lies in two main sections spread across the bay, the forward part in the middle and the stern pressed hard against the cliffs on the western side, none of it deeper than 14 metres. Around them is the debris field of a ship of more than 5,000 tons.