| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Barry Railway Company (optd Barry & Bristol Channel Steamship Co), Cardiff |
Cardiff |
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| Other names |
| 1917 BARRYFIELD - 1919 BARRY - 1925 WAVERLEY - 1940 SNAEFELL |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1908 Barry Railway Co, Cardiff
1910 The Bristol Channel Passenger Boats Ltd, Cardiff
1911 P & A Campbell Ltd, Bristol.
1933 reg Bristol
10/1939 Admiralty requisition - minesweeper |
| Vessel history |
For Bristol Channel excursion trade as "Red Funnel Steamers".
Legally, the Barry Railway Co could only operate ships from Barry Pier and to circumvent this restriction she was registered in the names of William Symonds, William Lewis, Herbert Rees-Jones and Howard Radford, four of the company's directors, and later transferred to an associated company, Red Funnel Line Ltd.
c1912 398grt 165nrt; 1926 471grt 185nrt; 1937 466grt 183nrt
29/6/1915-20/11/1919 requisitioned by Admiralty as minesweeper and then supply ship at Dardanelles - based Mudros, then Salonika. Renamed HMS BARRYFIELD in 1917.
10/1939 requisitioned as minesweeper HMS SNAEFELL. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1941 |
Bombed 05/07/1941 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Sunk by aircraft in 54.51N - 01.27W while minesweeping off Sunderland. Bomb went down the funnel. |
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