SS Unity

History
Name	1902-1933:SS Unity
Operator	1902-1905:Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited; 1905-1918:Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway;
Port of registry
Builder	Murdoch and Murray Port Glasgow
Yard number	190
Launched	1 November 1902
Fate	Sunk 2 May 1918 by UB-57
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,091 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	246.8 feet (75.2 m)
Beam	36.3 feet (11.1 m)
Draught	13.5 feet (4.1 m)

SS Unity was a freight vessel built for the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited in 1902.^[1]

History

Unity was built by Murdoch and Murray Port Glasgow for the Co-operative Wholesale Society^[2] and launched on 1 November 1902.^[3]

Unity was obtained in 1905 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

Having avoided a torpedo attack which sank another vessel from the line in April 1918, Unity was torpedoed and sunk on 2 May 1918 by the Imperial German Navy submarine UB-57 in the English Channel 9 miles (14 km) south-east of Folkestone.with the loss of twelve of her crew.^[4]

References

^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
^ "1113120". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
^ "New Steamer for Goole". Hull Daily Mail. England. 3 November 1902. Retrieved 24 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Unity". Uboat.net. Retrieved 10 November 2012.

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[1] Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.

[Unity-2] "1113120". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 15 December 2009.

[3] "New Steamer for Goole". Hull Daily Mail. England. 3 November 1902. Retrieved 24 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[4] "Unity". Uboat.net. Retrieved 10 November 2012.

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v t e Ships operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
LYR operated ships	Aire Alt Berlin Calder Colne Cuxhaven Dearne Derwent Don Douglas Equity Hebble Hodder Humber Irwell Liberty Mersey Nidd Ouse Ouse Ralph Creyke Rawcliffe Rosa Rother River Crake River Ribble Rye Spen Unity Wenning West Riding Wharfe
Jointly operated with the London and North Western Railway	Colleen Bawn Duke of Albany Duke of Argyll Duke of Clarence Duke of Connaught (I) Duke of Connaught (II) Duke of Cornwall Duke of Cumberland Duke of Lancaster Duke of York Earl of Ulster Ivernagh Kathleen Mavourneen Lune Mellifont Norah Creina Prince Arthur Prince of Wales Princess of Wales Royal Consort Thomas Dugdale Tredagh

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in May 1918
Shipwrecks	2 May: UB-31, Unity 5 May: Kyarra, UB-119 8 May: U-32 9 May: UC-78 10 May: UB-16, HMS Vindictive 11 May: Sant Anna, U-154, Verona 12 May: U-103, UB-72 13 May: UB-114, Zaanland 14 May: HMS Phoenix 17 May: U-35 18 May: Catapulte, Warrimoo, HMS Chesterfield 21 May: Rosalind 23 May: Innisfallen, HMS Moldavia, UB-52 26 May: UB-74 31 May: HMS Fairy, USS President Lincoln, UC-75 Unknown date: UB-70
Other incidents	1 May: Prince Rupert 13 May: USS Hisko, USS Mexican, Nidd 29 May: RMS Magdalena
1917 1918 1919 April 1918 June 1918

History

Name	1902-1933:SS Unity
Operator	1902-1905:Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited 1905-1918:Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Port of registry
Builder	Murdoch and Murray Port Glasgow
Yard number	190
Launched	1 November 1902
Fate	Sunk 2 May 1918 by UB-57
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,091 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	246.8 feet (75.2 m)
Beam	36.3 feet (11.1 m)
Draught	13.5 feet (4.1 m)