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If you are — or you see someone — in trouble on or near the sea, dial 999 and ask for the Coastguard.
At sea, contact Humber Coastguard on VHF channel 16.
If you have information relating to an emergency, missing person, on-going search or other operation involving the lifeboat, please contact the coastguard as above
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Contact details
- Wells Boathouse
- Beach Road
Wells-next-the-Sea
Norfolk
NR23 1DR
Telephone
Emergencies: Dial 999 and ask for the Coastguard
Shop and Visitor Centre: 01328 621794
Boathouse: 01328 710230 - General enquiries
- Coxswain
- Nicky King
Press Office - Jessica Curtis
Press Officer
Shop Opening Times
Our shop and viewing gallery are normally open weekends from Friday to Monday 10-4 along with extra days in the holidays and whenever we can. In good weather, the main boathouse doors may also be open to view the all-weather lifeboat from the front. See our visits page for more information.
Cut off on Stiffkey marshes
The inshore lifeboat goes to rescue people cut off by a large spring tide on Stiffkey marshes, 30 March 2025
RNLI 200
The RNLI celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2024, a milestone marked nationally and by lifeboat crews and stations around the UK.
Lifeboat Horse marking 200 years in the quayShannon lifeboat
and boathouse build
Wells RNLI is now operating from the new building. See the boathouse build pages for the story of how the new station was built.
Our new Shannon lifeboat was funded in part with a station appeal for £250,000 in 2014-15 and also by the Civil Service charity The Lifeboat Fund with its 150th Anniversary Appeal. We are hugely grateful to everyone who has donated, fund-raised, helped and supported us both locally and across the UK and further afield.
This website is run and managed by local volunteers at Wells-next-the-Sea lifeboat station and is not owned or operated by the RNLI
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a charity, registered in England and Wales (209603) and Scotland (SC037736).
All text and images copyright (C)2000-2026 RNLI Wells Lifeboat Station or as otherwise indicated, and may not be downloaded, copied or reproduced elsewhere
without prior permission of the station or the relevant copyright holder.- Jessica Curtis