Bit of trivia for you

In which Scottish loch did the US Navy lay a minefield?  

Gareloch or Loch Ryan?

Just a guess: the Holy Loch.

Quoted from Dugald

Just a guess: the Holy Loch.

The answer is Loch Lochy

Never heard of it! Thanks anyway jmb, any part marks for good attendance?

Quoted from Dugald

Never heard of it! Thanks anyway jmb, any part marks for good attendance?

The RN also laid one in Loch Ness

The USN took over responsibility for laying a large minefield across the North Sea.  They brought the mines across the Atlantic to Kyle of Lochalsh and Corpach, they were then shipped across to the East coast by rail or canal.  There were USN operations in Inverness, Alness as well as bases in Kyle and Corpach.  I only discovered their location in Corpach last year, no one locally knew anything about it.

They were tests in mine-laying or mine-sweeping techniques in the lochs.

The Yankee Mining Squadron; Or, Laying the North Sea Mine Barrage
By Reginald Rowan Belknap
Published by The United States Naval Institute, 1920

The northern barrage and other mining activities (1920)
Author: United States. Office of Naval Records and Library; Fullinwider, Simon Peter, 1871-
Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations Submarine; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.

The Northern barrage, Mine force, United States Atlantic Fleet, the North Sea, 1918 (1919)