CFD Online Discussion Forums - Error in meshing a Ship hull using snappyhexmesh

Iam working on a customized hull.when i used snappyhexmesh, i got the following error message:

/ubuntu-2.1.0/run/wigleyHull(2008) paraFoam
created temporary 'wigleyHull.OpenFOAM'
~/OpenFOAM/ubuntu-2.1.0/run/wigleyHull(2009) snappyHexMesh -overwrite
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: 2.1.0 |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build : 2.1.0-0bc225064152
Exec : snappyHexMesh -overwrite
Date : Aug 27 2014
Time : 17:31:26
Host : "ubuntu"
PID : 5226
Case : /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/ubuntu-2.1.0/run/wigleyHull
nProcs : 1
sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster
allowSystemOperations : Disallowing user-supplied system call operations

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time

Create mesh for time = 0

Read mesh in = 0.07 s

Overall mesh bounding box : (-10750 -5750 -5500) (20250 5750 5539.9)
Relative tolerance : 1e-06
Absolute matching distance : 0.0348587

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For debug level (= 2) > 1 this is considered fatal
Aborted (core dumped)
~/OpenFOAM/ubuntu-2.1.0/run/wigleyHull(2010)

Can anyone tell me what the problem could be?

I had to scale the geometry using convert to meter and the value was 1000.
The hull was modelled in Free ship and was imported to solidworks and was then converted to stl format, since the stl file generated from the freeship was just a half part of the symmetric body.