Postscript There is a report of subsequent salvage of the Young William in 1839:
From Reading Mercury, Saturday 9 November 1839:
The Divers at Holyhead. - Last Saturday and Monday, Mr. Dean
[John Deane], of
the cutter Lalla Rookh [ON 7536, cutter or smack 34 tons, oak, built Isle of
Wight, reg. London 1838; name of a princess
in a 1817 poem by Thomas Moore about India, with some mention of
divers], with the divers under his command, were successful in
recovering ten great guns, and other articles, in seven fathoms water, a
few miles to the S.E. of the South Stack Lighthouse. The said property
had been from the Young William, Guineaman, wrecked on her passage to
Liverpool in the year 1804[sic].
Comment Malltraeth is a bay and beach running north from Llanddwyn Island. It is
about 13 miles at 132° [approximately SE] from South Stack Lighthouse.
There are two known wrecks here - the Watkin F Nisbet (a Great Lakes steel
steamship lost in 1940, charted in shallow water) and the Greek brig Athena
(lost in 1852 and presumed to be the wooden wreckage embedded in the beach).
There is no record of the location of the wreck of the Young William - which
should be in deeper water [12m at LW] - perhaps near the Kimya (wrecked 1991)
which is charted in 12m. Another possibility is that the crew aboard the Young
William threw the guns overboard to lighten the ship, so she would be driven
higher up the beach.
Further diving exploits in 1839:
From Chester Chronicle, Friday 11 October 1839:
On Monday the 7th inst.[October] Mr. Dean, the diver, visited the Skerries with his
diving apparatus. Several vessels, some with valuable cargoes, have been
wrecked on the island within the recollection of several persons living. He
descended in eight fathoms water, and remained below for three hours, and
succeeded in recovering about a ton and a half of iron. His chief object was
a great quantity of copper and lead, reported to have formed part of the Cargo
of one the vessels wrecked. But the strong current prevailing during the spring
tides prevented a trial being made at that spot. Next neap tides, weather
permitting, another and, it is hoped, a more successful attempt will be made.
Addendum The above report [9 November 1839 about salvage of Young William] by Dean
states that: The above spirited individual succeeded in raising about three
tons of lead at the Skerries, since our last report of their visit to that
place.