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===Lifeboat=== The [[Newhaven Lifeboat Station|Newhaven Lifeboat]], the first of which was commissioned in 1803, is among the oldest in Britain, and was established some 20 years before the [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution]]. The town established the [[Lifeboat (rescue)|rescue lifeboat]] in response to the wreck of [[HMS Brazen (1798)|HMS ''Brazen'']] in January 1800, from which only one man of her crew of some 105 men could be saved.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newhavenlifeboat.co.uk/|title=Welcome To Newhaven Lifeboat|website=www.newhavenlifeboat.co.uk|access-date=15 May 2008|archive-date=15 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515210210/http://www.newhavenlifeboat.co.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> The town used a combination of funds raised locally and contributed by [[Lloyd's of London]] to purchase a lifeboat built to [[Henry Greathead]]'s "Original" design. Newhaven also has one of the Watch stations of the [[National Coastwatch Institution]].<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20061004034125/http://ncinewhaven.org.uk/ Newhaven NCI]}}</ref>
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