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February 16, 2005
Burnham lifeboats stay on duty during station resurfacing work

Burnham-On-Sea RNLI lifeboat Staines Whitefield and its companion D class lifeboat, the Elsie Francis II, were banished from their comfortable warm boat house for a week between February 7th and 12th while the lifeboat compound was resurfaced.

The work involved scraping away around one and a half inches of old faulty tarmac and replacing it with a new layer of slightly different format, which will be more compatible with a lifeboat station. The work was carried out under guarantee with no expense to the RNLI.

Both lifeboats were stationed in the Burnham-On-Sea car park in a temporary compound (pictured above) under the watchful eye of a security guard.

Thus, the Burnham-On-Sea station remained ready for action throughout the resurfacing work.

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