The wreck is reported to lie with its keel orientated 135/315 degrees. The stern is visible at most states of the tide standing 6m above the seabed. Salvage operations have left a mass of collapsed hull plates, ribs, girders and deck planking. Most easily recognisable features include the 3m in diameter boiler and a four-bladed propeller still mounted on its prop shaft. Wreckage is reported to cover an area measuring approximately 100m x 20m. An embossed brass machine plate, marked Weise & Monski, had been recovered and reported to the Receiver of Wreck.

Event and Historical Information:
The ASMUND was a 4735ton, steel-hulled cargo vessel built by Furness, Withy & Co Ltd, Hartlepool, in 1900. The vessel had had five name changes during its service life - ex-LOTUS, ex-ATLANTIS, ex-BOLIVIANA, ex-LUGOND and ex-BOLIVIANA. At time of loss, the vessel was owned by A/S Oddero and was Norwegian registered. The ship was bound from Novororissk on the Black Sea to Manchester with a cargo of grain. It encountered heavy weather and ran aground on the Port-y-Post rocks. The ship was badly holed. Some of the crew took to their own boat and got ashore. Others were taken off by the Holyhead lifeboat A. E. D. The vessel was subsequently refloated and towed to Holyhead, was refloated and anchored in the inner harbour near the breakwater in the afternoon. By 10 o'clock at night however, the ASMUND had sunk, giving the crew of 35 barely time to get away in the boats. The crew were taken aboard the RANGER and the MADIE which were standing by. About 150 tons of the grain which was in the vessel, had been loaded onto the MADIE, a Liverpool coasting steamer.. It was then raised, beached at Porth Penrhyn Mawr and sold for breaking up.

Sources include:

Holyhead Mail, 12 December 1930
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Lloyd's Register Casualty Returns, 1 October - 31 December 1930, p.9 (g)
Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping 1 July 1925 - 30 June 1926, number 13644 in A
Receiver of Wreck Droits database 2007, RCIM6/2/5
SS Asmund, Wreck Site EU
UK Hydrographic Office Wrecks and Obstructions Database. ? Crown Copyright and database rights. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the UK Hydrographic Office (www.ukho.gov.uk)
Wynne-Jones, I, 2001, Shipwrecks of North Wales, 4th edition, p.68

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, June 2009.

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