The Aida was built in France and launched in 1911. Originally ordered for the Egyptian Ports and Lighthouses Administration, she was later transferred to Egyptian Marina and used to ferry troops. In Oct 1941 she was attacked by German aircraft and despite not being hit, her Captain beached her thinking that she was sinking! The Aïda was refloated and repaired and continued in service until 1957 when she was eventually lost during a military personnel exchange on Big Brothers Island in heavy storms.

The Giannis D was built in 1969 in Japan and was originally called the Shoyo Maru. The Giannis D set sail from Croatia with a cargo of sawn softwood destined for the Saudi Arabian Port of Jeddah. The Giannis D had hit the northwest corner of Sha'ab Abu Nuhas at full speed and sank on April 19th 1983.

The Kingston is a twin mast steamship, 80 metres in length with a beam of 10m and she ran into the reef at shag rock on Feb 22nd 1881. As with many of the wrecks in the Red Sea she did not sink immediately and it took 2 days for her to finally accept her fate before she settled upright in only 18m of water (at the stern) on the gently sloping reef wall.

The 50m long MV Karwela was sunk in August 2006. She is located, in easy reach from the shore, 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 capable of taking a maximum of 800 persons but no cars.

The Salem Express was originally built in the French shipyards of La Seyne in 1964. The Salem Express was a passenger ferry, based in the port of Safaga, and on the evening of Dec 15th 1991 was returning from the port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. During a storm the Salem Express struck Hyndman Reef with catastrophic force. Striking the reef on the starboard side of her bow, she not only ripped a hole in her side, but the entire bow door was forced upward. She sank fully to the seabed in 30 metres of water, in as little as 10 minutes.

The Numidia was a British cargo ship, built in Glasgow in 1901. On 6th July 1901, she set out from Liverpool carrying a general cargo of 7,000 tons and a crew of 97, under the command of Mr John Craig, bound for Calcutta. Upon sighting Big Brother Island off the port bow, the Captain altered course, incorrectly thinking he would take the ship over one mile to the west of the Island. At 2:10am the ship ran aground on Big Brothers Island – north of the Lighthouse!