Qualla: HMS Unity (N66) https://qualla.com/hms-unity-n66 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/z/4/hms-unity-n66-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: HMS Unity (N66) https://qualla.com/hms-unity-n66 HMS Unity (N66): Introduction https://qualla.com/hms-unity-n66/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. Lieutenant John Low and Able Seaman Henry Miller did not have to stay. When the Norwegian freighter Atle Jarl came out of the haze and slammed into HMS Unity off the Northumberland coast on 29 April 1940, the submarine had perhaps five minutes left on the surface. Low and Miller knew the layout of the control room better than anyone else aboard. They knew which valves had to be held, which doors needed someone to manage them, what had to happen for the rest of the crew to get out through the hatch above. So they stayed below, working in seawater, while their shipmates climbed up. The submarine slid under. Both men went with her.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/z/4/hms-unity-n66-wp/gcz4-hms-unity-n66-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full HMS Unity (N66): A Small Boat for a Big War https://qualla.com/hms-unity-n66/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. HMS Unity was a U-class submarine, the first group of that compact pre-war design built for the Royal Navy. She was laid down at Vickers Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness on 19 February 1937 and commissioned on 5 October 1938, less than a year before the war that would dictate her s...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/z/4/hms-unity-n66-wp/gcz4-hms-unity-n66-a-small-boat-for-a-big-war.mp3 0:06 2 full HMS Unity (N66): Rescue and Near-Loss https://qualla.com/hms-unity-n66/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. Two incidents in the spring of 1940 hint at the texture of those patrols. On 25 March, Unity came across the survivors of the Dutch fishing vessel Protinus and pulled them aboard. The fishermen had been adrift after their boat was lost; the Royal Navy submarine became, for a few ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/z/4/hms-unity-n66-wp/gcz4-hms-unity-n66-rescue-and-near-loss.mp3 0:06 3 full HMS Unity (N66): The Collision Off Blyth https://qualla.com/hms-unity-n66/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. On 29 April 1940, Unity sailed from Blyth for a patrol off Norway, where the Germans had recently invaded and where Royal Navy submarines were trying to interdict the supply lines feeding the invasion. She did not get far. In poor visibility just off Northumberland, the Norwegian...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/z/4/hms-unity-n66-wp/gcz4-hms-unity-n66-the-collision-off-blyth.mp3 0:06 4 full HMS Unity (N66): What the Wreck Holds https://qualla.com/hms-unity-n66/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. The Unity wreck lies in relatively shallow water off the Farne Islands, between roughly 48 metres and the seabed. Technical divers can reach her, and do. She is one of a small constellation of Second World War submarine wrecks in the North Sea that mark not great battles but the ...

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