Qualla: Cemaes Lifeboat Station https://qualla.com/cemaes-lifeboat-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/cemaes-lifeboat-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cemaes Lifeboat Station https://qualla.com/cemaes-lifeboat-station Cemaes Lifeboat Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/cemaes-lifeboat-station/ Photo credit Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the afternoon of 14 October 1877, the full-rigged sailing ship Sarah, bound from Quebec to Liverpool with a cargo of timber, ran onto Middle Mouse Rocks two miles off the north coast of Anglesey in heavy weather. The new lifeboat at Cemaes - the Ashtonian, paid for from a Manchester legacy and barely a year old - was launched into a long Atlantic swell. Eighteen men came off the wreck. Ashtonian would launch eight times in her five years on station and save thirty-three lives. The station that bought her had only opened five years before, and would last sixty more.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/cemaes-lifeboat-station-wp/gckz-cemaes-lifeboat-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cemaes Lifeboat Station: The Inheritance From Cemlyn https://qualla.com/cemaes-lifeboat-station/ Photo credit Chris Andrews, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cemaes never planned to have a lifeboat. The first Anglesey lifeboat station, founded in 1828, was at Cemlyn a few miles to the west, the work of the Reverend James Williams and his wife Frances after they watched 140 people die in a single shipwreck in 1823. But by 1872 the Ceml...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/cemaes-lifeboat-station-wp/gckz-cemaes-lifeboat-station-the-inheritance-from-cemlyn.mp3 0:06 2 full Cemaes Lifeboat Station: Boats With Donors' Names https://qualla.com/cemaes-lifeboat-station/ Photo credit Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Four lifeboats followed Sophia at Cemaes, and each one's name tells a small Victorian story. Ashtonian was paid for from the legacy of George Higginbottom of Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire. The second Ashtonian, in 1881, came from another bequest. George Evans, the 34-foot lifeb...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/cemaes-lifeboat-station-wp/gckz-cemaes-lifeboat-station-boats-with-donors-names.mp3 0:06 3 full Cemaes Lifeboat Station: The Reverend Williams and His Horse https://qualla.com/cemaes-lifeboat-station/ Photo credit Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0. The most extraordinary story in Cemaes lifeboat history actually predates the station itself. On 7 March 1835, the Belfast vessel Active was driven ashore at Cemaes Bay in a winter storm. Several attempts to launch a boat had failed. The Reverend James Williams of Llanfair-yng-Ng...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/cemaes-lifeboat-station-wp/gckz-cemaes-lifeboat-station-the-reverend-williams-and-his-horse.mp3 0:06 4 full Cemaes Lifeboat Station: Sixty Years, Forty-Two Lives https://qualla.com/cemaes-lifeboat-station/ Photo credit Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Across her 60-year life, the Cemaes lifeboat was launched 60 times and rescued 42 people. The station closed in 1932 after 25 years with few launches and no rescues - the same calculation that had closed Bull Bay six years earlier. Faster motor lifeboats at Holyhead could now cov...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/cemaes-lifeboat-station-wp/gckz-cemaes-lifeboat-station-sixty-years-forty-two-lives.mp3 0:06 5 full