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Credits
The RNLI Wells Lifeboat Station website is maintained by station volunteers and supporters. 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
- 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.
Celebrating 200 years
The RNLI is 200 years old this year and the anniversary is being marked nationally and by lifeboat crews and stations
around the UK. In Wells, we held a series of events and an exhibition in Wells Maltings in March and we'll be flying the
RNLI 200 flag throughout the year. We also have 200 hand-made commemorative wellies which you can write a message on displayed
outside the boathouse for 200 days. We still have some of these for sale at £10 each from the station shop.
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.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a charity, registered in England and Wales (209603) and Scotland (SC037736). This website is managed and maintained by local volunteers at Wells-next-the-Sea Lifeboat Station and is not the main RNLI site. All text and images copyright (C)2005-2021 RNLI Wells Lifeboat Station, or as indicated, and may not be downloaded, copied or reproduced elsewhere without prior permission of the station or the relevant copyright holder. #1#