Lisa Hickman27 September 2023
My Grandfather was one of the crew, his name was Alfred Ernest Herman Norvock. I don’t have much information or photographs so if you have anything information etc I would be extremely grateful. Many thanks, Lisa
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‘Leo’ GY.36 and ‘Resono’ GY.508 at Grimsby 1910-1915.
A detail from a contact print made from an original, glass plate negative. The glass plate no longer exists.
‘Leo’ GY.36 was a steam trawler built in 1904 by Cochrane & Sons Ltd. of Selby for Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co. of Grimsby. She was lost in a gale in the North Sea in December 1942. None of the eleven crew survived.
‘Resono’ GY.508 was a steam trawler built in 1910 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. of Beverley for George F. Sleight of Grimsby. She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy as minesweeper HMT ‘Resono’ FY.1042 in January 1915. In December 1915, she was sunk by a mine from a German submarine in the Thames Estuary. Thirteen men were lost.
