W. Bro. Revd. David T. Youngson, PPAG Chaplain, Northumberland offers the following:

The information given below in respect of some of the brethren is the best possible conclusions from Lodge records, Grand Lodge records, Commonwealth War Graves Commission and data in respect of merchant ship losses during the First World War.

2935 Lord Barnard Lodge
Year of Warrant 1902
Masonic Hall Tyne Dock South Shields
1481 Engine Room Artificer SCOTT William
Royal Naval Reserve H.M.S. Clan McNaughton

A Marine Engineer, he was Initiated on the 22nd March 1912; Passed 29th December 1913 and Raised on the 26th January 1914. He died on the 3rd February 1915 aged 29 and is Remembered on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent 14.H.M.S. Clan McNaughton was a Clan Line passenger cargo ship (4985 GRT) registered at Glasgow launched in 1911. She began war service as an auxiliary armed cruiser and was last heard of on the 3rd February 1915 off the north coast of Ireland. Wreckage was found in the sea and she was presumed lost during severe gales and sunk with the loss of 20 Officers and 261 Ratings. No U boat claimed to have sunk her.

William Scott is remembered on our List of Ships’ crews

H.M.S. Clan McNaughton
H.M.S. Clan McNaughton Casualty List
The CWGC entry for Engine Room Artificer Scott