A PADDLE steamer that sank at sea 75 years ago

[Administrator]

A PADDLE steamer that sank at sea 75 years ago was remembered at an event held at Barry Island Railway’s museum on Sunday, June 26.

A static display featuring the paddle steamer continues at the Central Library, King Square, Barry until Saturday, July 9.

Further tribute will paid on the anniversary of the steamer’s loss and during Sea Sunday at the anchor monument at the former Dock in Barry at 2pm on Sunday, July 10.

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Paddle Steamer Barry remembered at 75th anniversary event

A PADDLE steamer that sank at sea 75 years ago was remembered at an event held at Barry Island Railway’s museum on Sunday, June 26.

Barry at War hosted an introduction to the Paddle Steamer Barry and remembered and paid tribute on the anniversary of both the loss of the vessel and her Royal Navy crew 75 years ago.

After the Great War she returned to pleasure cruising and was refitted by her builders in 1926 and was renamed Waverley. She became HMS Snaefell in WWII and attended Dunkirk where she was involved in the rescue of her grounded stablemate Glen Gower. She was later sent to the Tyne, where she was finally sunk in a bombing raid off Sunderland.”

The vessel was sank on July 5, 1941 during the Second World War.