Albion 11

Originally constructed as a steam side trawler in 1907, the Albion was requisitioned as a minesweeper in August 1914. On January 13, 1916, while on patrol in the Channel, it ran headfirst into a German mine planted by the submarine UC-5.

• http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?11464

• The image shows the trawler builders dockyard at Smith’s Dock Co. Ltd.