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hms snowflake
Weather Watcher
HMS Snowflake
Built by The Smiths Dock Company, Middlesborough
Launched on 22 Aug 1941
© The Flower Class Forum
Converted to Weather Watcher in 1947 at Rosyth
Weather Watcher
©
Tees built ships
©
Tees built ships
© Unknown
Picture from the Babtie, Shaw and Morton archives, supplied by Stuart McMahon
Weather Watcher (with Observer behind) in the James Watt Dock
© John Harney
© Marine Observer
© Bob Reid
© Bob Reid
© Harry Cocks
Weather Watcher at Great Harbour
© Harry Cocks
© Harry Cocks
© Ron Cuthbertson
Watcher at sea in 1948
© The Sphere
© Crown copyright 2021, the Met Office
Watcher oiling at Old Kilpatrick in 1953
© Alan Douglas
Weather Watcher
© Robbie Cox
Weather Watcher in Reykyavik Harbour after her last voyage to Station Alpha in Dec 1961
© Bob Reid
Waiting to be scrapped in 1962 in Dublin
© Bobby
Weather Watcher was scrapped in May 1962
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