Tyne and Wear HER(13126): St. Mary's Island, Unicity - Details
13126
N Tyneside
St. Mary's Island, Unicity
St. Mary's Island
Maritime Craft
Fishing Vessel
Trawler
Modern
C20
Wreckage
A 96 ton drifter on H.M. Service. She capsized and sank while on mine sweeping duties on 31st January 1942. N 55 06 50 W001 29 10 (Collings). A 96T vessel, described on the Spokes and NMR database as both a trawer and a Royal Navy armed drifter in two separate entries. The Unicity sank as the result of a mine 31st January 1942. She may have been raised and scrapped in October 1943.
3287
8006
NZ32878006
Peter Collings, 1991, The New Divers Guide to the North-East Coast, page 51; National Monuments Record, Ian T. Spokes Wreck Database, Inga Project