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Sidmouth Lifeboat is a fully self-funded independent lifeboat charity in East Devon that provides lifeboat and
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services, and is located at The Esplanade in
Sidmouth Sidmouth () is a town on the English Channel in Devon, South West England, southeast of Exeter. With a population of 13,258 in 2021, it is a tourist resort and a gateway to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. A large part of the town has ...
, a town approximately east of
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, on the
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of
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, England. A lifeboat station was established at Sidmouth in 1869 by the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat (rescue), lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on s ...
(RNLI), operating until its closure in 1912. A new Independent Lifeboat station was established in 1968, and since 2019, its principal lifeboat is currently an Arctic 24
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named ''Peter & Barbara Truesdale''. Sidmouth Independent Lifeboat is not part of, or funded by the RNLI, although it does have close links to the RNLI through the nature of its work. Sidmouth Lifeboat is funded entirely by the community in and around the Sid Valley and friends of Sidmouth Lifeboat from further away.


History

The RNLI had established stations at in 1853 and at in 1858. In 1869, Sidmouth RNLI Lifeboat Station was opened, to cover the coast between the two locations. A boathouse was built at the end of Ham Lane, which housed two lifeboats at different times. The Sidmouth RNLI lifeboat saved 38 lives, but by 1912 it was seldom called out and the station was closed. The boathouse was later demolished but a stone carved with the initials 'RNLBI' was saved and is now over a doorway of the building that stands on the site. For further information, please see * Sidmouth RNLI Lifeboat Station


Independent service

Students at a local secondary school set up a beach lifesaving organisation in 1968 and a rigid inflatable lifeboat was purchased in 1972. The organisation was accredited with the
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as a rescue facility in 1982. A new boathouse was built on The Esplanade when it obtained a new lifeboat in 1991. The lifeboat covers
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between
Budleigh Salterton Budleigh Salterton is a seaside town on the coast in East Devon, England, south-east of Exeter. It lies within the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and forms much of the electoral ward of Budleigh, whose ward population at the ...
and
Axmouth Axmouth is a village, civil parish and former manor in the East Devon district of Devon, England, near the mouth of the River Axe. The village itself is about inland, on the east bank of the Axe estuary. The parish extends along the estu ...
.


Sidmouth independent lifeboats

The Arctic 24 lifeboats are long and can carry 4 crew with 8 survivors. Sidmouth Lifeboat also operates a MilproAvon Sea Rider boat which is known as ''Speedy Sid''.


See also

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Independent lifeboats in Britain and Ireland Independent lifeboats in Britain and Ireland began to be established around the coasts towards the end of the 18th century in response to the loss of life at sea. More recently, independent services have been set up in response to the incr ...
*
List of former RNLI stations Former RNLI stations can be found all around the coast of the entire British Isles, and were the locations for a fleet of rescue Lifeboat (rescue), lifeboats. The service was established in 1824 as the Royal National Institute for the Prese ...


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Sidmouth Lifeboat
{{Lifeboat stations in Dorset and South Devon Devon Sidmouth Lifeboat stations in Devon 1968 establishments in England