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RNLI Lifeboat Station at Wells
Situated at the eastern end of Wells beach, Wells Lifeboat Station is one of 232 operated by the RNLI around the UK's coast, providing emergency life-saving cover up to 50 miles off-shore. The station has two lifeboats; a Mersey-class all-weather lifeboat which can operate in all conditions with a range of over 100 miles and a small, fast inshore lifeboat.
As a once busy commercial port and now the only major harbour along the North Norfolk coast, the RNLI has kept a lifeboat at Wells for over 100 years.
Wells-next-the-Sea on the North Norfolk coast has been a port and a largely natural safe-haven for ships and boats for at least 600 years. Protected by rare salt marshes behind a sand bar, the Port of Wells was one of England's major harbours in Tudor times and a thriving, busy centre for shipping and maritime industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when its stone quay was constructed, along with many of the large buildings and tiny yards and houses that still dominate the look and feel of the town.
www.wellsharbour.co.uk/index.htm
RNLI Lifeboat Station at Wells
Situated at the eastern end of Wells beach, Wells Lifeboat Station is one of 232 operated by the RNLI around the UK's coast, providing emergency life-saving cover up to 50 miles off-shore. The station has two lifeboats; a Mersey-class all-weather lifeboat which can operate in all conditions with a range of over 100 miles and a small, fast inshore lifeboat.
As a once busy commercial port and now the only major harbour along the North Norfolk coast, the RNLI has kept a lifeboat at Wells for over 100 years.
Wells-next-the-Sea on the North Norfolk coast has been a port and a largely natural safe-haven for ships and boats for at least 600 years. Protected by rare salt marshes behind a sand bar, the Port of Wells was one of England's major harbours in Tudor times and a thriving, busy centre for shipping and maritime industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when its stone quay was constructed, along with many of the large buildings and tiny yards and houses that still dominate the look and feel of the town.
www.wellsharbour.co.uk/index.htm