SOS Fundraising total : £3401.72. Well done to all the crew who helped with the car wash, and Janet, Roy,Margaret, Pat and Eric, Fantastic effort !!! Penlee Lifeboat Station latest rescue Date: 22/02/2010 Lifeboat: Both boats Launched: 17:40 Returned 18:15 Casualty, search for missing person, Position: Newlyn - Marazion Weather: E 3-4 Crew: ALB, Patch, Olly, Spencer, Will, Beaner, Mike C, Dinx, ILB Ben, Dave Os, James

Penlee Lifeboats in Action

Lifeboat exercise; Tom Matson is pictured on the bow of Dave and Patch's yacht 'Galatea' preparing a towing bridle. The towing bridle would then be connected to the lifeboats tow rope should a yacht require a tow. It is common practice to transfer a crewman to a casualty yacht if the yachts crew are incapacitated by possible injuries or seasickness.

This is the Penlee Lifeboat Stations inshore lifeboat the 'Paul Alexander.' It is pictured in its boat house on its trailer ready to launch at a moments notice!

Ollie and James on the stations smallest lifeboat the 'Y-Boat'. This inflatable is powered by a 15hp Mariner outboard and is stored on top of the Severn's wheel house, it is used in shallow water where the ALB and ILB cannot reach due to their respective draughts.

Left: The Penlee ILB 'Paul Alexander' being put through her paces by Deputy Second Coxswain Ben Keogh after the Lifeboat Blessing in Mousehole.

Julian Drew, the Station's Chaplin is pictured watching an exercise on the Ivan Ellen .

Penlee Lifebaot Ivan Ellen at full speed.

The Ivan Ellen in moderate conditions.

One of Ollie's artistic moments: the Ivan Ellen in Newlyn.

Tom Matson making a tow rope fast of a casualty vessel

Images of the Sennen Cove Lifeboat