James and Mrs Frances Williams in 1828.They had witnessed the loss of 140 lives from the wreck of the vessel Alert in 1823, and spent the following five years raising funds and gaining support.
Secretary of the fund, the Moelfre lifeboat was renamed London Sunday Schools and Charles Seare in 1867.
This station was stone-built with rendered walls and a slate roof, on a rectangular base of coursed, squared limestone.
The new station building can house both the All-weather and inshore lifeboats, and has up to date crew facilities with kit drying room and a hot shower, and new mechanics workshop.
[5][6] At 3:30pm on the 28 October 1927, at the height of a storm with gale force winds gusting up to 85 mph, Second Coxswain William Roberts launched the Charles and Eliza Laura (ON 605) to the aid of the vessel Excel of Poole.
Owen Jones, an experience seaman, but not part of the regular crew due to his work, After battling the conditions for over 2 hours, they finally reached the Excel.
The lifeboat, badly damaged, and unable to return to Moelfre due to the weather, made for Puffin Island.
The Moelfre crew remained with their battered lifeboat for the rest of the night, and it was only at dawn that the Beaumaris lifeboat was again despatched, this time towing the Moelfre boat, landing the exhausted crew back at Beaumaris Pier at 8:30am.
[8] Richard Matthew (Dic) Evans, BEM (1905 - 2001) served as a crewmen and Coxswain at the station for 50 years and was credited with saving 281 lives.