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Peter Huxtable MBE has saved hundreds of lives during his 51 years at Shoreham RNLI Lifeboat Station. The 69-year-old, who grew up in Shoreham, began working as a fisherman and was soon asked to join the lifeboat crew. He served on both the all weather and inshore lifeboats, and in 1991 became the coxswain of the Shoreham lifeboat. It makes him the the second longest serving coxswain in the history of the station, and in 2005 he was awarded an MBE for services to the RNLI. He has saved 449 lives during his time as a volunteer, including helping to rescue the crew on the stricken Athina B Greek vessel off Brighton in 1980, and two crew on board the yacht Trimley Maid, which was in trouble in gale force nine winds off the coast in June 1999.