A MEMORIAL service will be held at Faslane Cemetery on Sunday, January 29 to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the K-13 submarine disaster in the Gare Loch.

The steam-propelled submarine sank during sea trials on January 29, 1917, with the loss of 32 lives.

On board at the time were 53 crew, 14 employees of Fairfield's, the Govan shipyard where she was built, five Admiralty officials, a pilot, and the captain and engineer of sister sub K-14.

Those who died are commemorated every year at a service at the cemetery, where a simple grey granite obelisk among the graves remembers the victims of the tragedy.

Read more about the K-13 tragedy in this week's 'Eye on Millig' column - printed in the January 12 issue of the Advertiser and due to be published on this site tomorrow.