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Name: NEW UNITY
Launched: 1844
Completed: 10/1844
Builder: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 57grt, 18nrt, 83.3 x 16.7 x 9.9ft; (draft 5.9ft)
Engines: Grasshopper type, 40nhp
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle; (by 1867: Sail, rigged as a Schooner)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 4253
History:
01/11/1844 Unknown owner; registered at London
1848 Thomas Petley (t/a United Steam Towing Co), London
1863 CC Nelson et al, London
by 1867 John Rouse, Boston, Lincolnshire; registered at Boston
by 1875 Alfred H Read, Boston
29/09/1876 Sank
Comments: 1859: Lengthened to 95.0ft
by 1867: Engine removed, converted to sail
29/09/1876: Sank after a collision with schooner FRUITER, 5 miles SExS of Wolf Rock
On a voyage from Liverpool with a cargo of salt