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Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth

Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth.

Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth, died on 31st October at the age of seventy. He had served in the Criccieth Life-boat for some forty years.

From 1890 to 1901 he was Second Coxswain, and from 1901 to 1926 he was Coxswain. On his retirement, at the end of 1926, he was awarded the maximum pension and a Coxswain's Certificate of Service..