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Kingfisher IV

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 19th of De- cember, 1948, a motor vessel informed Niton Radio Station of a fishing boat in. need of help nearly three miles out from Shoreham in a south- easterly direction, and the motor life- boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 2.45. A fresh easterly wind Was blowing, with a moderate sea.

The life-'boat found the local motor fishing boat Kingfisher IF, with a crew of four, and her engine broken down, and towed her into harbour. She returned to her station at 4.45.— Rewards, £11 Is..