23^rd January 2024 Up-Date…

RNLI, All-Weather Lifeboat Centre Tour is now fully Booked. However, we have a waiting list, if interested please contact Robert McGregor.

RNLI, All-Weather Lifeboat Centre Tour.

Sussex and Surrey Area are delighted to invite you to our RNLI, All-Weather Lifeboat Centre Tour.

The RNLI has pledged to provide every all-weather lifeboat crew with a 25-knot lifeboat. This means that at least 50 new Shannon class lifeboats, and will need to build six of these all-weather lifeboats every year, as well as maintain the existing fleet.

To achieve this the All-Weather Lifeboat Centre in Poole, Dorset, was build and officially opened on 21 August 2015. The facility brings every stage of the lifeboat building process in-house and under one roof, ensuring that the RNLI are fully equipped to build the next generation of all-weather lifeboats. It also gives greater control of costs and quality, and it creates employment, including apprenticeships in marine engineering and boatbuilding.

Ever seen a lifeboat in production?

The All-Weather Lifeboat Centre Tour take you behind the scenes of the world-class lifeboat-building factory.

Tours take place from RNLI College, and lasts approximately 90 minutes. Children 12 years and over only (visitors must wear closed toe shoes).

All-Weather Lifeboat Centre Tour:

• Two boat halls with flexible bays for manufacturing and maintaining lifeboats
• Component manufacturing area
• Launch, recovery and boat storage area
• Paint preparation area with built in extraction system and heat curing facility
• Workshop for supporting our inshore training fleet
• Office facilities
• Tools and equipment storage
• Visitors’ viewing area

Tickets

The talk is open to the general public:

• All-Weather Lifeboat Centre Tour: £6.25 excluding VAT (£7:50 including VAT)

Children 12 years and over only (visitors must wear closed toe shoes).