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==History==
The English industrialist [[Bernard Docker]] commissioned [[John I. Thornycroft & Company]] to build a yacht to his specifications.<ref name=RPTDH231_233 /><ref name="CharterWorld" /> The yacht was completed in 1938 and christened MY ''Shemara''.<ref name=RPTDH231_233 /><ref name="CharterWorld" />
 
MY ''Shemara'' was requisitioned by the [[Royal Navy]] at the start of the Second World War in 1939 and used as a training vessel for anti-submarine warfare. It was during a training exercise with HMS ''Shemara'' that the submarine [[HMS Untamed (P58)|HMS ''Untamed'']] was lost with all her crew.<ref name="SubMuseumLosses8" /> ''Shemara'' left RN service in 1946<ref name=Uboat/>