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