Donaghadee's future lifeboat (in foreground, left) is one of four steel-hulled 44' Waveneys building at Bideford Shipyard, North Devon. When this photograph was taken, in January, her aluminium alloy deck plates were being offered up before being welded together and riveted into place. Her aluminium alloy superstructure was at the same time being built in prefabricated units on jigs in another part of the yard, ready to be erected on the boat..