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
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,091 GRT
Length	246.8 ft (75.2 m)
Beam	36.3 ft (11.1 m)
Draught	13.5 ft (4.1 m)

Name1902–1933: SS Unity

Operator

BuilderMurdoch and Murray Port Glasgow

Yard number190

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

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 22 May: USS Wakiva II 23 May: Innisfallen, HMS Moldavia, UB-52 26 May: UB-74 30 May: SS Ausonia 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 22 May: USS Wabash 29 May: RMS Magdalena
1917 1918 1919 April 1918 June 1918

References

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


General characteristics
Tonnage	1,091 GRT
Length	246.8 ft (75.2 m)
Beam	36.3 ft (11.1 m)
Draught	13.5 ft (4.1 m)