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Credits
The RNLI Wells Lifeboat Station website is maintained by station volunteers and supporters independently of the RNLI.
Our thanks go to all who help or who have contributed material. This includes, in no particular order...
- Max Phillips
- Webmaster
- Greg Hewitt
- Original Webmaster
- Allen Frary
- Information and advice
- Peter Rainsford
- Information and advice
- Bob Smith
- Information and advice
- Nicky King
- Information and advice
- Campbell MacCallum
- Station Honorary Photographer. Many of the photographs on this website are Campbell's work
- Nicholas Leach
- Various original photographs on the website.
Image copyright and credits
All of the images and text on this website are copyright and may not be copied, reposted or reproduced without prior written permission from the station or the appropriate copyright holder. If you would like to reproduce or re-use any of the images on this site, please ask as permission can often be obtained.
Some images are specifically credited with a camera icon and initials or name underneath. For example, CM is Campbell MacCallum, NL Nicholas Leach, MP Max Phillips, FW Fred Whitaker, RW Ray West and MF Martin Flitcroft. Even where no credit appears, the photographer is usually known to us and the image has been used with permission.
There are a number of historic and vintage images on the site, particularly in the history section, where the original photographer or copyright holder is unknown to us. Many of these are from original photographs and prints owned by the crew and their families in Wells or on display at the boathouse. If you are the copyright holder of such an image and wish it to be credited or removed, please let us know.
Privacy notice, GDPR and cookies
This website does not collect or process any personal information. It does not track or identify visitors using 'cookies' and only uses cookies when strictly necessary for its correct operation.
If you send us a contact message or use other enquiry, booking or purchase forms, we will process and store your personal data securely and only use it to reply to you or provide the service requested. The data will not be used for other purposes or shared with other organisations.
We monitor and ensure the correct and safe operation of this website and look for ways to improve it using typical web logs, diagnostic and analysis data which may include your IP address and any messages or forms sent but this data will not be used for other purposes or shared with other organisations.
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 quay
Shannon 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.