George William Henry Blowers

A Deck Hand with Fishing Vessel Kincorth (Aberdeen), George died on 10 December 1941 at the age of 38 years.

George was born at Pakefield on 8 May 1903, a son of William and Ellen Blowers. George’s father died four months before George’s birth in the loss of the trawler Free Lance. In 1909 George’s mother married John Vincent. In 1911 his family lived at 46 Pakefield Street. In 1921 George’s family lived at 19 Saint Margaret’s Road, Pakefield, and George worked as Colby’s Shipyard, Oulton Broad. 

On 4 October 1928 George married Gertrude Alice Newberry at Saint Margaret’s Church. George was a fisherman living at Pakefield and Gertrude lived at 38 Worthing Road. By 1939 their home was at Joan Villa, 6 Ship Road, Pakefield.

In 1941 George was a Deck Hand on the steam trawler Kincorth. On 10 December 1941 the trawler was fishing seven miles east-north-east from Point Lynas, Anglesey, Wales, near Ynys Moelfre. The trawler is believed to have struck a mine and exploded. All ten of the crew, including George, were lost.