Archaeology Notes

Event ID 876434

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NP54NW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]

Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].

Formerly entered in error under classification Requisitioned Steam Trawler.

Formerly entered as Site no. 8003 at cited location NO c. 90 47 [N56 37 W2 10].

Length: 231ft [70.4m]

Beam: 28ft [8.5m]

Displacement: 750 tons.

Propulsion: triple expansion (3 cyls): 2 screws: 1800hp: 16kts.

Guns: 1 or 2 12pdr or smaller.

Complement: 65-71.

This Fleet Minesweeper of the Early Hunt class was built in 1917 and mined off Scotland in 1918.

H M Le Fleming 1961.

(Location of loss cited as 'Montrose, Scurdie Ness, 10.5M SE').

R Larn and B Larn 1998.

(Classified as Minesweeper: date of loss cited as 1 May 1918). HMS Blackmorevale [Blackmore Vale]: [this vessel was] mined off Montrose.

Registration: London. 750 tons displacement. Length: 66m. Beam: 9m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 38.00 W1 10.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.

This class of ship was also classified as a Fleet Minesweeping Sloop, and were both larger and more sophisticated than the various classes of requisitioned trawler that were converted, adapted or fitted for minesweeping. They were distinguished by having augmented-draugh coal-burning boilers, with corresponding heavy coal consumotion and smoke production.

This vessel was built by Ardrossan Dry Dock Company, Ardrossan, launched 23 March 1917, and sunk by mine off Montrose on 1 May 1918.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 November 2001.