Coxswains Lifeboats and Courage

20.6.2002.bk41.25/walesthebrave

Coxswains Lifeboats and Courage

For twenty-four years Hugh Jones was the coxswain

Of the lifeboat in Llandudno

Memorial to Miss Brown - who died in Toxteth

Sister’s Memorial in Llandudno

In 1875 Hugh’s brother Richard

Of the lifeboat in Llandudno

For fifteen years coxswain - seeing Sunlight

Sunlight Number One in Llandudno

In 1890 John Hughes - coxswain - followed

To the lifeboat in Llandudno

Men dragged the boat - much cheaper than the horses

Theodore Price came to Llandudno

From nineteen-four Ted Griffith then John Owen

Were the coxswains in Llandudno

When Ada Mary sank - John Owen - coxswain

Fetched all the crew off to Llandudno

A medal - cast in bronze - rewarded courage

Of man and crew from Llandudno

Down all the years - with better boats - they manage

With bravery born of Llandudno

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