St. Mary's Island, Unicity
St. Mary's Island, Unicity
HER Number
13126
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
St. Mary's Island, Unicity
Place
St. Mary's Island
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Fishing Vessel
Site Type: Specific
Trawler
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Second World War 1939 to 1945
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
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.
Easting
432870
Northing
580060
Grid Reference
NZ432870580060
Sources
Peter Collings, 1991, The New Divers Guide to the North-East Coast, page 51; National Monuments Record, Ian T. Spokes Wreck Database, Inga Project