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Coxswains and Honorary Secretaries

COXSWAINS OVER THE YEARS STATION HONORARY SECRETARIES
Quarry Men then Local Pilots were used before Coxswains were  introduced in 1831 Year not known     Rev. Hugh Jones
.1831 -  1861            Owen Roberts Year not known     Captain Ogle RN
Owen Roberts also served as Hon. Sec. for a time   1855  -  1867       J. Wynne Jones
1861  -  1897           Robert Roberts   1867  -  1871       R. Wynne Jones
1898  -  1915           William Pritchard   1871  -  1906        William M. Preston
1915  -  1918           Harry Wright   1906  -  1937        James Hartley Burton
 1918   -  1938           William Matthews
 Gus Jeune is believed to have taken over 
 for a short time until  sadly he died.
 ( Not much information on this )
  1937 -  1937       Captain Richard  Davies
                               Also Treasurer

1938     Jim Jeune took over as Coxswain     but in September 1939 joined the forces when war broke out.

   1937  - 1938         Mrs. Burton acted as
      Hon. Sec for  several months until :- 
1939 William Matthews returned as Coxswain until Jim Jeune returned at the end of the war June 1945
and took over again  until  1953
 1938 - 1940  Mr. R.H.D.Williams Bulkeley
                      took over. 
1953  - 1966      Hugh Jones  1940 - 1953  Lt. Col. R.R. Davies joined by
    Mr. Rodney Jones as joint Hon. Sec.
1966  - 1972     Harold Jones  1953 - 1960      Miss Mary Burton
1972  - 1980     William Pritchard  1960  - 1969    Captain John B. Lynch

1980 - 1991       David W. Gallichan 
                   
Awarded the Bronze Medal in 1982

 1969  - 1974     Michael L. Booth

ALB withdrawn in 1991

1974  - 1987      Colonel John Cooper

Offshore Station Closed

1987 -  1996      John Askew
 Inshore Lifeboat  in Command of the Helmsmen 1996  -  2001     Huw Glynne Williams
 Senior   Helmsman  Michael Stone. 2001  -    ?   John Matthew Broughton
                             
 

From October 2003 Honorary Secretaries 
are now to be known as :-
Lifeboat Operations Manager  
 L.O.M.   for short.

   
   

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