‘Northern Foam’ GY.490 slipped at Grimsby 1952.

A scan of an original photo. Private collection.

‘Northern Foam’ GY.490 was a steam trawler built in Germany in 1936 by Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau, AG Weser shipyard, Bremen, Germany for Leverhulme Ltd. (war reparations). She was London registered as LO.153 and initially went to Fleetwood. In 1937, she was transferred to Grimsby.

In 1939, ‘Northern Foam’ LO.153 was requisitioned as an armed boarding vessel and for anti-submarine duties. In 1944, she took part in the Normandy Landings. She returned to Grimsby in 1946 where she was registered as GY.490. (The London registry closed in 1947.) Broken up at Dunston-on-Tyne in 1964.