The Lighthouse Keeper of Moelfre

On the night of October 27, 1859, a hurricane-force storm slammed into the Welsh coast at Moelfre. The Royal Charter, a clipper ship carrying 450 passengers home from the Australian gold rush, broke apart in the surf. Waves the height of houses swallowed the wreckage. The earth itself seemed to give way as cliffs crumbled into the churning sea. But on shore, a man named Charles remained at his post.…