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SNAEFELL
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Wikipedia vessel details
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- Name
- HMS Snaefell (J118)
- Pennant number
- J118
- Flag
- Royal Navy
- Description
- Paddle minesweeper
- Built
- 1907
- Tonnage
- 466
- Commanding officer
- T/Lt. Frank Brett, RNVR
- Trips to Dunkirk
- 2
- Troops landed
- 981
- Notes
- Not stated
Dunkirk-related passages from the linked page
Requisitioned by the Royal Navy at the outbreak of World War II she was renamed again in 1939, this time to HMS Snaefell to avoid confusion with another paddle steamer Waverley which had already been requisitioned from London and North Eastern Railway, and assigned to the 8th Minesweeping Flotilla.[4][5][2] She was one of the flotilla of ships at the Dunkirk evacuation making two trips across the channel, credited with rescuing 981 soldiers and freeing another ship which had run aground, the Glen Gower.[4][5][2] Sunk by a German Luftwaffe bomber on 5 July 1941 with three fatalities but her other nine crew rescued,[7] her wreck was located off the coast of Sunderland in 2010.[4][8][5] 1 2 3 4 Mace, Martin (30 July 2017). The Royal Navy at Dunkirk: Commanding Officers' Reports of British Warships In Action During Operation Dynamo. Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1473886728.
ORDE Registry
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Small Craft Service List
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Red List (1939–40) — OCR
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Ship Details
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Lloyd’s Yacht Register (1939)
Source: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Heritage & Education Centre, Lloyd’s Register of Yachts 1939, digitised via Internet Archive. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Images have been converted, resized and watermarked for web display; machine-generated table OCR has been added.
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Source: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Heritage & Education Centre, Lloyd’s Register of Yachts 1939, digitised via Internet Archive. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Images have been converted, resized and watermarked for web display; machine-generated table OCR has been added.
Details
| 6627 | Snaefell Wood | Sc | - | 40.0 | 100 35 | Paraffin Motor | The Exors. of the late | Fareham |
Details
| m. Snaefell | 16 | m. Bluff | 15 | a. Jean Bart | 15 | a. Priscilla | 15 | a. Bingara | 14 | Innisfallen | 14 |
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| Eadie, Douglas, Gairletter, Blairmore, Argyllshire. Hly. m. Vixen 3 Eager, F. Z., | Eaton, Hugh S., Royal Thames Yacht Club. 60, Knights- bridge, London, S.W.1. Gib.-Ocn.-Tms. m. Bittern 82 | Ditherumpop (P.O.) 4 Eckles, H. T., Kenwyn, 5. Shaftesbury Road, Bridlington, Yorks.-Yrk. | Edholm, Carlos, c/o Georg Edholm, Fredrikstad, Norway.-Nsk. a. Emma 12 | Edney, The Exors. of the late John H., 'Salterns," Fareham, Hants. m. Snaefell 16 |
Operation Dynamo Map — Movement Logs
Movements recorded for SNAEFELL during the evacuation period, as plotted on the Operation Dynamo map.
| Departed | Route | Arrived | Troops | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jun 1940, 14:50 | Harwich → Dunkirk | 1 Jun 1940, 21:45 | — | NMM 940.542.1 1940 Orde vol iii, page 166 | |
| 1 Jun 1940, 22:15 |
Assumed return journey
Return data not logged
Large-vessel default via Route Z
Dunkirk → Dover
|
2 Jun 1940, 05:10 | — | Derived for map animation; no historical return log. Large-vessel rule: Dover via Route Z. |
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