Boathouse build - new time-lapse

Tue 8 Feb 2022

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Our newly-updated time-lapse video shows the construction of our new boathouse right up to date from its start in October 2020, beginning with the site being cleared, the ground level raised, piling and the building of the concrete slab, and now going right up to the recent addition of external insulation and windows. The building should be finished by the end of May.

The station's new Shannon-class lifeboat will be no. 13-46 and named RNLB 'Duke of Edinburgh' and is currently being built at the RNLI's All-Weather Lifeboat Centre in Poole. The boat will be launched and sea trials conducted in Poole and all being well it is envisaged it will arrive in Wells by the Autumn.

The new lifeboat will carry the names of supporter's loved ones in small type within the RNLI 13 46 lettering and numbers on the hull and on top of the wheelhouse. There are still some spaces available for this if you'd like to Launch A Memory for your loved ones this way.

For more information and photos of the boathouse build, see our boathouse build pages.

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