Copy Photograph: Wreck of 'The Hindlea'

COPY PHOTOGRAPH: Wreck of 'The Hindlea'.

Used during the exhibition at Moelfre.

The Hindlea was a steel-hulled motor vessel built in 1941 at Hessle. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 506gt, 402nt; screw propulsion powered by an oil engine. At time of loss, 27 October 1959, the vessel was registered at Cardiff and was on passage from Manchester to Newport in ballast. She had taken shelter from a south westerly gale in Dulas Bay. The gale changed to a northerly direction and increased in severity bringing with it hurricane force gusts of wind. The ship began to roll violently attached to the seabed by only one anchor cable and with her propeller racing more out of the water in an attempt to keep the bow into the wind and waves. Moelfre Reserve lifeboat Edmund & Mary Robinson was alongside. The Hindlea was hurled against the cliffs and broken in two. Coxswain Dick Evans received the RNLI gold medal, the mechanic Evan Owen a silver medal, and the three other members bronze medals for saving eight of the crew.

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Compiled by Amanda Sweet for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

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