Card L0332
Huke's 1898
Name- Qui Vive...Owner- J. Runacres...Address- Lowestoft
Jenkins, Sailing Fisherman in Old Photographs
Name- Qui Vive...Class- Trawler...Built- 1898 with elliptical Lowestoft fashion stern...Disposal- Sunk by U-boat, Smith's Knoll fishing ground, 1915
Card L0629, Boston Wellington, 1955
Boston Deep Sea Fisheries by Stopper & Maltby
Name - Gervais Rentoul...Class- Trawler...Built- Buckie 1917...Working- 1945...Disposal- Sold 1949, scrapped 1952.
Lowestoft Drifters used by Admiralty from Dover for Flare burning as part of the evacuation of BEF and French forces from Dunkirk May 27th to June 4th 1940.
Name- Gervais Rentcol
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