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Built in 1955 as a train ferry , it weighs 1123 gross tones & is 80 meters long, with a beam of 12 meters & 23 meters overall height. The vessel was bought by Gozo Channel in February 1990 for Lm327, 000, the Xlendi was meant to serve as a cargo carrier between Malta and Gozo, augmenting the service provided by the MV Ghawdex (the latter is currently out of service as well).
MV Xlendi was handed over to the Gozo Tourism Association to scuttle as an attraction for divers, after it had stopped operating in 1997. After a lengthy process to obtain a permit to sink her off Xatt L-Ahmar, on 12/11/99 Xlendi finally hit the seabed resting in a position which due to prevailing winds at the time of scuttling pushed the vessel off the selected and the desired position. The wreck currently lies up side down on a sandy slop 40 meters deep, and 30 meters at its shallowest, its keel. The wreck of MV Xlendi is the only known wreck dive off Gozo. This project marks the end of a serious of similar projects embarked during the end of the last century.
