Shipwreck MV Karwela

The MV Karwela was built in West Germany in 1957 by Jos.L.Meyer of Pepenburg.This passenger ferry with a steel hull weighing 497 tons and 48 meters in length and a beam of 8 meters was first registered in West Germany as the Nordpaloma.She came to Malta in December 1986 and in May 1992 she was purchased and registered by Captain Morgan Cruises.Silema Malta.On the 13/8 2006 Scuttled as a fishreef together with MV/ Cominoland in Gozo near a bay called “ix-Xatt l-Ahmar”.