A new station was established on the opposite side of the River Towy at Ferryside in 1860, by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

In 1835, the Carmarthen Lifeboat Station was established on the west shore of the River Towy estuary by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS), later to become the RNLI in 1854.

The 'new' Carmarthen Bay lifeboat had previously been in service at Blakeney, as the 6-oared Brightwell, but was withdrawn from there after just two years, as it had been found to be under-powered.

This now modified lifeboat rowed 10-oars, double banked, and arrived at Carmarthen Bay with its carriage in May 1864, once again transported free of charge by the Great Western Railway.

[8] In gale-force conditions and rough seas, on the 15 March 1905, the City of Manchester (ON 56) was launched to the aid of the Norwegian barque Signe of Kristiania, which had been driven ashore at Cefn Sidan sands.

The Liverpool-class lifeboat on station at the time of closure, Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine (ON 831), was sold from service, last reported as a fishing boat in Barmouth in 1969.

It is now a 'declared facility' recognised by H.M. Coastguard, one of over seventy independent lifeboats around the shores of the British Isles, and operates as a marine division of St. John Cymru.