8 - City Dulas - Benllech
Royal Charter Memorial - Moelfre
The memorial (2009) near the Lifeboat Centre by the sculptor Sam Holland
The view from this direction shows
A Maltese seaman Joseph Rogers (Guize Ruggiers) who managed to rig a bosun's chair to shore.
Looking in the opposite direction is a depiction of the ship wrecked on the rocks.
On 26th October 1859 The Royal Charter a steam clipper on a Melbourne - Liverpool voyage
laden with Gold ,was wrecked with only 39 survivors and the loss of least
459 of the passengers and crew . The Great Storm of 1859 wrecked 133 Ships.
Ref: NW 1994
Date: 18/04/2023
Location: SH 5147 8642
