Rhyl lifeboat station was established in 1852 by the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society and was originally at Foryd harbour. A lifeboat named ‘Gwylan-y-Mor’ was on station 1852-56, followed by 'Morgan' until 1893, then ‘Caroline Richardson’ (the first) until 1897 then the one shown above, ‘Caroline Richardson II’ which served until 1939.The larger picture above is from Rhyl History Club Community Archive and is wrongly dated 1890 (7 years before the boat went
on service). Circa 1900 would be a better guess. The man standing
on the boat is Joseph Hughes the coxswain who did the steering and was in charge of the crew from 1898 to 1921.
Joseph had six sons in the lifeboat service, too. They were fishermen deeply involved in maritime matters.
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