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MV Xlendi, Karwella
& Comino Land
Comino Land
Karwella
MV Xlendi
The Xlendi is an intentionally sunk wreck, this time lying off the coast of Gozo. She was a big ship at 77m in length and displacement 1123 tons. She was sunk for divers in November 1999. The sinking did not go to plan. The Xlendi hit the reef on the way down and sank upside-down in 42m of water. Now all the sections that had been removed to assist with diver entry are hard into the seabed and entry to the wreck is banned. The Xlendi was a roll-on, roll-off ferry, so had props at both ends. The 50 meter long MV Karwela was sunk in August 2006. During the scuttle buoyancy tanks have been used to make sure the wreck lands upright. She is located just of the coast from Xatt L-Ahmar and started in 1957 as the MS Frisia II, renamed to the Nordpaloma in 1977 before she came to Malta in 1986 to serve as a passenger ferry with a maximum of 800 persons and no cars. MV Cominoland was sunk in August 2006. She started as a British Miner in 1942 and became a passenger an car ferry between Gozo and Comino. She could load more than 400 passengers and 10 cars and in all her years as a ferry no accidents happened. She was renamed from Minor Eagle (1968), Cominoland (1976), Jylland II (1980) and again to her final name the Cominoland.