Norwegian full-rigger Asmund photographed in Australian waters in (ab.) 1920 by Allan C. Green. My restoration and colorization of the original image in the State Library Victoria archive. The 284 ft ship had an iron hull.
Skipshistorie.net gives this information on the ship:
"1886 Built as fully rigged CORTEZ by Oswald, Mordaunt & Co.,
Woolston, Southampton, England for George Petrie, London,
England.
1902 Transferred to George Petrie & Son, London.
1906 Sold in april to Harloff & Bøe et. al., Bergen.
Overført in December to Harloff & Rødseth et. al., Bergen.
1909 Sold in May to A/S Cortez (Alex. Bech & Co.),
Tvedestrand.
1913 Sold in September to A/S Cortez (E. Monsen & Co.),
Tvedestrand.
1917 Sold 01/01 for NOK 884.000 to A/S Odderø
(Thv. B. Heistein & Sønner A/S), Kristiansand. Renamed
ASMUND.
1919 Skibs-A/S Odderø taken over in June by A. I. Langfeldt &
Co., Kristiansand.
1921 Laid up at Newport News, VA, USA.
1924 Sold for USD 15.000 to Italian byers. Delivered in Genoa,
Italy. Broken up in 2nd quarter."
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