On 2 May 1918, Unity was sailing from Newhaven to Calais with a cargo of ordnance when she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-57, commanded by Johannes Lohs, around 9 nautical miles south-east of Folkestone. Twelve crewmen were lost, although her captain survived. For divers, Unity has all the ingredients of a proper Dover Strait war wreck: a working railway steamer, a dangerous military cargo, a U-boat attack in the final months of the First World War, and a wreck lying in the Channel where trade, war and tide all met in the usual civilised manner, by breaking steel.
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