However, with launching difficulties encountered at that location, and also with too few crew available, Theddlethorpe was closed in 1882, and a new station at Mabelthorpe was opened in 1883.

[2] A shortage of volunteers for the crew during the First World War resulted in the lifeboat station being temporarily closed in 1917.

[3] The RNLI started to deploy inshore lifeboats (ILBs) in the 1960s to better respond to incidents involving leisure activities around the coast.

Helmsman Thomas Freeman was awarded an RNLI Bronze Medal for making the rescue in such extreme weather for a small ILB.

Framed letters of thanks from the Chairman were given in 1980 to the lifeboat crew and shore helpers who managed to launch through heavy surf to save three people whose boat had engine trouble.