I help out at the National Lifeboat Collection in Chatham Dockyard in Kent, and I have access to and can photograph all the lifeboats in the collection. If anyone wants photos of any of these boats for modelling purposes please send a mail and I will see what I can do.

Cheers,

Lance

The collection is composed of the following boats :

Norfolk & Suffolk
    (38′) St. Paul – 1897
    (42′) James Leith – 1910

45′ Watson
    B.A.S.P. – 1924

28′ Harbour
    Helen Blake – 1938

41′ Watson
    Susan Ashley – 1948

52′ Barnett
    St. Cybi (C.S. No. 9) – 1950

46’9" Watson
    North Foreland (C.S. No. 11) – 1951

35’6" Liverpool
    Grace Darling – 1954

37′ Oakley
    J.G. Graves of Sheffield – 1957
    The Will and Fanny Kirby – 1963

44′ Waveney
    44-001 (unnamed) – 1964

D-Class
    Blue Peter III – 1966

Atlantic 21 (RIB)
    B-500 – 1970

McLachlan
    c1970

37′ 6" Rother
    Mary Gabriel – 1974

54′ Arun
    Edward Bridges (C.S. No. 37) – 1975