Snaefell V Steel twin screw steamer, geared turbines
Official Number: 165287 Call Sign: MA V K
Built & engined: Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Birkenhead
Yard No. 1192
Gross Tonnage: 2489 Speed: 21.5 knots
Overall length: 105.11 m Breadth: 14.38m
Launched: 11.3.1948 Cost: £504,448
Maiden Voyage: 24.7.1948 Final Voyage: 29.8.1977
Disposal: Sold to Rochdale Metal Recovery Company and towed by tug
George V to Blyth, Northumberland on 24.8.1978. Arrived
8.9.19 78 and broken up by H. Kitson,Vickers & Co.
Snaefell (V). No. 165287. Steel; twin-screw turbine. Built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead in 1948 and started in the summer services that year. Cost £5O4,448. Tonnage 2489; but her dimensions, speed, horsepower and crew accommodation were otherwise similar to her three predecessors. She and Mona's Isle were the last ships on the Company's Heysham-Douglas service when it closed towards the end of August in 1974. Apart from an accident when she fouled her anchor off Llandudno in July 1976 and missed a sailing, she too had an efficient and uneventful career. But the predominance built up by the Steam Packet Company's car ferries in the 1970's made it sensible to withdraw another traditionally designed ship. She was thus sold to the Rochdale Metal Recovery Co. for scrap in 1978, and in the November was towed to Blyth for breaking up.
Island Lifeline Connery Chappell and other sources.
Isle of Man SG551