NEWSPAPER CUTTING: Moelfre lifeboat made the all time classic rescue by Charles Quant, relating the events of a rescue made by them in October 1927, involving the crew of the ketch Excel of Poole.
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Moelfre Lifeboat station was originally formed by the Anglesey County Association. A new lifeboat was sent to the station in 1854, being built at the joint expense of the RNLI and local associations. In 1875 a new lifeboat house was constructed at a cost of £160. In 1927 a Gold Medal was awarded to Second Coxswain William Roberts; and crew member Captain Owen Jones, and Bronze Medal to Bowman William Williams, and crew members Robert Francis, Owen Jones, Thomas Jones, Hugh Matthews, Hugh Owen, John Owen, Robert Owen, Owen Owens, Hugh Thomas, Richard Thomas, Thomas Williams, and (posthumously) William Roberts for the service by the lifeboat Charles and Eliza Laura, in the great gale of 28 October 1927. The lifeboat launched during the afternoon and found the ketch Excel of Poole waterlogged and about to sink. The desperate decision of sailing the lifeboat right over the wreck was made. The three men on the ketch were hauled on board her but the lifeboat herself was badly damaged. Her air-cases kept her afloat but she was full of water. In this condition and with one of her sails blown away, she was beating against the gale all night. Two men, a member of the crew and one of the rescued, died on board. Second Coxswain William Roberts was completely blind for several hours after landing, from the wind and salt water. Moelfre Lifeboat station was originally formed by the Anglesey County Association. A new lifeboat was sent to the station in 1854, being built at the joint expense of the RNLI and local associations. In 1875 a new lifeboat house was constructed at a cost of £160. In 1927 a Gold Medal was awarded to Second Coxswain William Roberts; and crew member Captain Owen Jones, and Bronze Medal to Bowman William Williams, and crew members Robert Francis, Owen Jones, Thomas Jones, Hugh Matthews, Hugh Owen, John Owen, Robert Owen, Owen Owens, Hugh Thomas, Richard Thomas, Thomas Williams, and (posthumously) William Roberts for the service by the lifeboat Charles and Eliza Laura, in the great gale of 28 October 1927. The lifeboat launched during the afternoon and found the ketch Excel of Poole waterlogged and about to sink. The desperate decision of sailing the lifeboat right over the wreck was made. The three men on the ketch were hauled on board her but the lifeboat herself was badly damaged. Her air-cases kept her afloat but she was full of water. In this condition and with one of her sails blown away, she was beating against the gale all night. Two men, a member of the crew and one of the rescued, died on board. Second Coxswain William Roberts was completely blind for several hours after landing, from the wind and salt water.
June 2nd 2007 CHARLES QUANT, the former chief Welsh affairs correspondent of the Daily Post, died yesterday after a short illness. He was 88. Mr Quant charted the modern life of North Wales through journalism, staying true to his craft well into retirement. He ended his writing career for the newspaper as a columnist after 50 years - and just short of his 80th birthday.
A former alderman on Flintshire County Council and a magistrate for 25 years, he died in a local nursing home after a stroke first confined him to hospital in Wrexham three weeks ago.
The newspaper man was awarded the MBE for services to the community and was a Lieutenant of the Victorian Order for his service to the Prince of Wales, having acted as a member of the Prince of Wales Committee for 25 years. Mr Quant, who built his home at Gwernymynydd, near Mold, 50 years ago, leaves his wife of 13 years Rosemary, 78, son Theo, 55, daughter Gina, 53, and two grandchildren Grace, 16, and 14-year-old Tom. His first wife Joy died in 1990. In an article to mark his 80th birthday Mr Quant wrote: "Journalism changes people. It enlarges us, makes us more sensitive to what people want, what interests them, what they want doing, about their country, their environment".
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