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Gallantry at Newhaven.

The Institution has awarded its silver medal to Coxswain Leonard Peddlesden, of Newhaven, Sussex, and its bronze medal to each of the seven members of his crew, for standing by one of H.M trawlers in a rough sea, and seeing her to a safe anchorage, after the life-boat herself had been rammed by the trawler, a hole smashed in her side, one of her crew washed overboard and drowned, and the coxswain and half the crew injured..