Registration number 1048
Status Archived
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Details

Function Service Vessel
Subfunction Lifeboat
Location Lowestoft
Vessel type Liverpool Class Lifeboat
Archive reason More information required
Current use Commercial Activity
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Groves & Gutteridge Ltd, Cowes
Built in 1948
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall
35.48 feet (10.82m)
Tonnage: Gross
6.00

History

Built by Groves & Guttridge as the Edgar, George, Orlando & Eva Child, a 35ft 6 Liverpool class lifeboat at Cowes in 1948. 

She was in service at St Ives 1948 to 1968, Blackpool 1970 to 1978 sold out of service 1983 when she became a fishing vessel.

Listed as the EILEENA ANNE LT 283 in Olsen's Fisherman's Nautical Almanack 1998 Wheelhouse added in Kings Lynn 2006 Still fishing FV 07 Listed as fishing from Lowestoft as EILEENA ANNE LT 317 by DEFRA 1 July 2008.

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Key dates

  • 1948

    Vessel built in Cowes, Isle of Wight

  • 1983

    Vessel sold out of service and became a fishing vessel

Sources

Olsen's Fisherman's Nautical Almanack 1998, E T W Dennis & Sons Ltd, pp619, Edition 122, 1998   

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