Wreck off Cape Apostolos Andreas is the Città di Alessandria, lost in 1972, diver concludes

The broken cargo ship lying in shallow water off Cape Apostolos Andreas, at the far end of the Karpas (Karpaz) peninsula in the north of Cyprus occupied by Turkey since 1974, is the MV Città di Alessandria, the diver Christoforos Psyllides has concluded. He dived the site in October 2025 and June 2026, checked the name already attached to the wreck against shipping records and found no reason to reject it, as he wrote on 19 October.

The ship had earlier sailed as the Christiane Schulte and was registered in Liberia. It ran aground at the cape on 5 or 6 February 1972, and an RAF helicopter rescued seven crew. Psyllides found the stern lying largely whole on its starboard side, with the rest of the hull broken up over sand and rock at depths down to about 16 metres; among the debris are a large anchor, an anchor windlass and what may be parts of the engine. He found no record to support local stories that the ship carried whisky or that its cargo was taken off after the grounding, and what it was carrying is unknown.

Older wrecks lie in the same waters. In 1969 and 1970 an Oxford underwater survey led by Jeremy Green recorded eight wreck sites and about 200 anchors around the Klidhes islands off the cape. The northern coast has had no inventory of its underwater sites since the invasion.