| Name: | SNIPE |
| Type: | Fishing Vessel |
| Launched: | 15/04/1897 |
| Completed: | 05/1897 |
| Builder: | Edwards Brothers |
| Yard: | North Shields |
| Yard Number: | 549 |
| Dimensions: | 143grt, 39nrt, 106.0 x 20.5 x 11.0ft; (1911: 165grt, 64nrt, 119.0ft) |
| Engines: | T3cyl (12, 18 & 30 x 21ins), 41nhp |
| Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 108524 |
| History: | |
| 05/1897 | Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd (JEA Kelsall), Fleetwood |
| 1899 | Registered at Hull |
| 10/1921 | Sank |
| Comments: | 1897: Allocated fishing registration number FD168 at Fleetwood |
| 1899: Allocated fishing registration number H133 at Hull | |
| 22/10/1904: Damaged by shell fire from Russian warships in the ‘Dogger Bank Incident’ | |
| 1911: Lengthened to 119.0ft | |
| 11/1914: Requisition by the Admiralty as a minesweeper | |
| 1920: Released to owners | |
| 10/1921: Sank after a collision with BURMAH in the North Sea |