Sunrise Over Selsey Lifeboat Station
Selsey Lifeboat Station was a notable landmark in Selsey, West Sussex. The 1958 boat house, pictured here in 2009, was demolished in 2017. At the time it housed the 48-foot 6in Oakley Mk.II boat "Charles Henry".
Selsey Lifeboat Station is located on Kingsway in Selsey, a town approximately 13 km south of Chichester, at the southernmost point of the Manhood Peninsula, overlooking the English Channel. A lifeboat station was established at Selsey by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1861.
The boathouse was rebuilt in 1958 with reinforced concrete as the old structure had become unsafe due to years of coastal erosion. The deep water roller slipway was re-configured to have a gradient of 1:5, and the station was given a newly fabricated steel approach gangway from the shore.
A new boathouse was constructed for the Inshore lifeboat in 1987. In 2011, the RNLI celebrated Selsey's 150th anniversary as a continuously active lifeboat station.
In the summer of 2017, a new boathouse was built on shore at the Kingsway, which allowed all elements of the RNLI at Selsey to come together on a single site for the first time. The old station was demolished and removed between June and July 2017.
Sunrise Over Selsey Lifeboat Station
Selsey Lifeboat Station was a notable landmark in Selsey, West Sussex. The 1958 boat house, pictured here in 2009, was demolished in 2017. At the time it housed the 48-foot 6in Oakley Mk.II boat "Charles Henry".
Selsey Lifeboat Station is located on Kingsway in Selsey, a town approximately 13 km south of Chichester, at the southernmost point of the Manhood Peninsula, overlooking the English Channel. A lifeboat station was established at Selsey by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1861.
The boathouse was rebuilt in 1958 with reinforced concrete as the old structure had become unsafe due to years of coastal erosion. The deep water roller slipway was re-configured to have a gradient of 1:5, and the station was given a newly fabricated steel approach gangway from the shore.
A new boathouse was constructed for the Inshore lifeboat in 1987. In 2011, the RNLI celebrated Selsey's 150th anniversary as a continuously active lifeboat station.
In the summer of 2017, a new boathouse was built on shore at the Kingsway, which allowed all elements of the RNLI at Selsey to come together on a single site for the first time. The old station was demolished and removed between June and July 2017.