LOCH NAVER

Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1905

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 120 1/3' x breadth 21 5/6' x depth 13'
gross tonnage: 216 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001304

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 418.

Fate: Mined in the Aegean off Mindisi Point, on 13 May 1918.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1905: Bon Accord Steam Fishing Co., Aberdeen
02/1915: requisitioned, converted for minesweeping April 1915.

General History:
LOCH NAVER (Admiralty trawler no. 1179) trawler
Hired 1915; 216 tons; 120 1/4ft x 21 1/4 ft; 1 x 6pdr
Skipper Edmund Artis Butler RNR
Former Aberdeen trawler fitted as patrol vessel and based in the Aegean. She left Syra at 8.50am for Cape Spathi, Zea on 13 May (1918) and was not heard from afterwards. The lighthouse keeper at Port St Nikolo on Zea later reported that at about 2pm he had seen a trawler disappear in a cloud of smoke. A search of the area found wreckage in position 37.50N 24.26E, between Cape Angelistro and Port St Nikolo, and it was presumed that she had been lost by striking a mine. All thirteen hands were lost.

The mine that sank LOCH NAVER was laid by the German mine laying submarine UC74.

List of those lost:
BLEWETT, Richard B, Deckhand RNR 9905.DA(D)
BUTLER, Edmund A, Ty/Skipper, RNR
COOK, William Henry, Deckhand RNR 6127.DA (PO)
DUNCAN, David, Deckhand RNR 4528.DA (PO)
ENGLAND, Alexander Fowler, Engineman RNR 2405.ES (PO)
FLINN, Robot William, 2nd Hand RNR 10042.DA (C)
HADDEN, Thomas, Engineman RNR 2296.ES (PO)
KELMAN, William Stewart, Trimmer RNR 2317.TS (PO)
MATTHEWS, Cecil, Deckhand RNR 11107.DA
RICHARDS, John, Philpin PO RNR 1695, C (D)
SHEARING, Alfred Jethro AB RN 134678 (PO)
THOMAS, John, Trimmer RNR 4857.TS (D)
TRENEARY, Ernest, Deckhand RNR 13752 (D)
(David Hepper (2006), "British Warship Losses of the Ironclad Era 1860-1919" (Chatham Publishing))

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12", 20" and 33" cylinders, 22" stroke. Boiler 12'6" diameter, 10'0" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)