HMS Snaefell
{{Short description|Clyde-built paddle steamer (1907 - 1941)}}
{{Other ships|List of ships named PS Waverley}}
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|infobox caption= |display title= }} {{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship image size= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship name={{ubl|PS Barry (1907–1917) | HMS Barryfield (1917–1918) | PS Barry (1918–1926) | PS Waverley (1926–1939) | HMS Snaefell (1939–1941) }} |Ship flag= |Ship owner={{ubl| Barry Railway Company (1907–1907) | Bristol Channel Passenger Boats (1907–1911) | P & A Campbell (1911–1941) }} |Ship operator={{ubl|{{navy|United Kingdom}} (1917–1918) | {{navy|United Kingdom}} (1939–1941) }} |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=John Brown & Company, Clydebank |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=4 May 1907 |Ship completed= |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship identification= |Ship fate=Bombed and sunk, 5 July 1941 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type=Paddle steamer |Ship tonnage=466{{cite web | url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8655984 | title=Ship Name: Snaefell Former Ship Name: Waverley Gross Tonnage: 466 | work=Merchant shipping movement cards 1939–1945 | publisher = The National Archives }} |Ship displacement= |Ship length= |Ship beam= |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship depth= |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship ramps= |Ship ice class= |Ship sail plan= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion= |Ship speed= |Ship capacity= |Ship crew= |Ship notes= }} |
HMS Snaefell was a paddle steamer, built at John Brown & Company's Clydebank shipyard for the Barry Railway Company and launched in 1907 as the PS Barry.{{cite news | url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/divers-discover-long-lost-wreck-1420721 | title=Divers discover long lost wreck HMS Snaefell | work=ChronicleLive | date= 1 October 2010 | access-date=2017-08-12 }}{{cite book |last=Mace |first=Martin |date=30 July 2017 |title=The Royal Navy at Dunkirk: Commanding Officers' Reports of British Warships In Action During Operation Dynamo |publisher=Frontline Books |isbn=978-1473886728 }} Built to serve as a pleasure steamer carrying passengers on the Bristol Channel, she was quickly transferred to the ownership of Bristol Channel Passenger Boats which in 1911 became part of P & A Campbell.{{cite book |last=Dumpleton |first=Bernard |date=April 1973 |title=Story of the Paddle Steamer |publisher=Venton Publications |isbn= 0854750576 }}
She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy during World War I and renamed HMS Barryfield serving during the Gallipoli Campaign where she was the last British ship to leave Suvla Bay evacuating British soldiers.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-32249670 | title=Salvaged artefacts from war-torn steamer return to Barry | date=11 April 2015 | work=BBC News | access-date=2017-08-12}} After the war she returned to passenger service in November 1919 under the name Barry, was refitted in 1920 and renamed PS Waverley in 1925.{{cite web | title=Requisitioned Auxiliary - Barry | website=Historical RFA recording the History and Honour of the RFA | date=4 May 1907 | url=http://www.historicalrfa.org/requisitioned-auxiliaries/161-requisitioned-auxiliaries-b/1575-requisitioned-auxiliary-barry | access-date=14 July 2021}}
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. 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. Sunk by a German Luftwaffe bomber on 5 July 1941 with three fatalities but her other nine crew rescued,{{cite web |url=http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4107-34JUL01.htm |title=Naval Events, July 1941, Part 1 of 2, Tuesday 1st – Monday 14th |publisher=Naval History |access-date=2017-08-12}} her wreck was located off the coast of Sunderland in 2010.{{cite journal |author=Brian Matthewman, Brian |title=2010 North East Wreck Week: Silent Running Mixed Gas Dive Team |journal=Advanced Diver Magazine |url=http://www.advanceddivermagazine.com/articles/silentrunning/silentrunning.html |access-date=2017-08-12}}