HMS Port Napier

	Port Napier's wreck in Loch Alsh in 2010
History
United Kingdom
Name	Port Napier
Namesake	Napier Port
Owner	Port Line
Operator	Royal Navy
Port of registry	London
Builder	Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend
Yard number	1569
Launched	23 April 1940
Completed	June 1940
Commissioned	12 June 1940
Identification	UK official number 167578; call sign GLSK; ; pennant number M32;
Fate	Fire & explosion, November 1940
General characteristics
Type	Auxiliary minelayer
Tonnage	9,847 GRT, 5,906 NRT
Length	503.3 ft (153.4 m)
Beam	68.2 ft (20.8 m)
Depth	29.8 ft (9.1 m)
Installed power	7,500 bhp
Propulsion	2 × screws; 2 × two-stroke diesel engines;
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)
Sensors and ; processing systems	wireless direction finding; echo sounding device; gyrocompass;
Armament	2 × 4-inch guns; 2 × 2-pounder guns ; 4 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons; 600 × mines;
Notes	sister ships: Port Jackson, Port Phillip, Port Victor

HMS Port Napier was a British motor ship that was designed and laid down as a civilian cargo ship but completed in 1940 as an auxiliary minelayer for the Royal Navy. An engine room fire caused an explosion that destroyed her in November 1940. Her remains in Loch Alsh in Scotland are now a recreational wreck diving site.

She was the third of four ships called Port Napier to be owned by Port Line. She was named after Napier Port on the North Island of New Zealand.

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