Port Napier was laid down in 1940 with the name Port Napier by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Newcastle. Since the Royal Navy needed more ships in the war against Germany, Port Napier was taken over by the navy in June 1940 and completed as a minelayer. She was put in service for 1. Minelaying Squadron who did service to secre the areas outside the west coast of Scotland, but never saw any active service. On 27. November 1940, a fire broke out. With lots of ammunition on board, she was a grave danger, and was towed across the channel towards a remote bay where she was left drifting. Some time later a huge explosion ripped the bridge section of, and HMS Port Napier soon flooded and disappeared in the deep. There she laid herself at rest on a depth of merely twenty meters. In 1955 the Royal Navy decided to remove the dangerous cargo, and in the same operation most of her upper plating was also removed. Today the wreck rest on her port side on a depth of eighteen to twenty five meters just between the two buoys outside the shoreline of Loch Alsh. The wreck can easily be located, just look for the remains of the bridge section that still lies in a rubble close to the water. The wreck lies one hundred meters off the shore...