She was requisitioned in the Second World War by the French Navy for use as a watchboat.

[1] Goëland was built as yard number 180 by Bonn & Mees, Rotterdam, South Holland for F. Courtois & F. Havelaque, Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.

[6] By 1922, she had been sold to the Sociètè Française des Pêcheries à Vapeur, Boulogne.

[7] Goëland was later sold to the Compagnie Générale Grande Pêche, Fécamp, Seine-Inférieure, France.

She was captured later that year by the Kriegsmarine, and was commissioned on 30 November 1940 as HS 06 Goëland.