DEVON artist Nick Langdon’s most recent finished piece depicts Coxswain Patch Harvey at Penlee Lifeboat Station who was involved in the rescue of a yacht off Porthleven, and as a result of which was awarded a silver medal for gallantry. 

It was that which inspired Nick to produce this drawing, copies of which can be bought from the online RNLI store, and he wanted, in this year of the bicentenary of the RNLI, to donate the original drawing to a suitable local gallery or museum and chose Penlee House Museum and Gallery. 

Nick said: “It can be displayed as a lasting and fitting homage to what Patch and his crew accomplished and I decided that Penlee house would be a well-chosen home for it.”

Nick Langdon presents drawing to Penlee House Museum and Gallery. L-r Katie Herbert curator/deputy director Penlee House and Nick Langdon.
Katie Herbert, curator/deputy director Penlee House, with artist Nick Langdon (Submitted)

RNLI Penlee Coxswain Patch Harvey received a Silver Medal for Gallantry and a Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for his exemplary display of courage, leadership and determination to save lives, along with his excellent boat-handling skills in extreme weather. The RNLI volunteer crew received the RNLI’s Silver Medal for Gallantry Certificates.

The crew of the HM Coastguard helicopter based at Newquay were presented with a Silver Medal Service Certificate by the RNLI for their outstanding lifesaving actions during that same rescue.