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| Name: | 1902-1933:SS Unity |
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| Port of registry: |  |
| Builder: | Murdoch and Murray Port Glasgow |
| Yard number: | 190 |
| Launched: | 1 November 1902 |
| Out of service: | 2 May 1918 |
| Fate: | Sunk 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]
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.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways. It was the third-largest railway system based in Northern England.
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]
The Imperial German Navy was the navy created at the time of the formation of the German Empire. It existed between 1871 and 1919, growing out of the small Prussian Navy, which primarily had the mission of coastal defence. Kaiser Wilhelm II greatly expanded the navy, and enlarged its mission. The key leader was Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, who greatly expanded the size and quality of the navy, while adopting the sea power theories of American strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan. The result was a naval arms race with Britain as the German navy grew to become one of the greatest maritime forces in the world, second only to the Royal Navy. The German surface navy proved ineffective during World War I; its only major engagement, the Battle of Jutland, was indecisive. However, the submarine fleet was greatly expanded and posed a major threat to the British supply system. The Imperial Navy's main ships were turned over to the Allies, but were sunk at Scapa Flow in 1919 by German crews.
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SM UB-57 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy during World War I. She was commissioned into the Flanders Flotilla of the German Imperial Navy on 30 July 1917 as SM UB-57.
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