Unity (schooner)

Unity was a ship that went missing in 1813 off the coast of Tasmania, Australia.

Unity was a schooner and was moored in Hobart when on the night of 24 April 1813, between 11pm and midnight, a gang of seven armed convicts boarded the ship.

They seized the crew and the ship's owner, William Hobart Mansel, a merchant from Sydney, and held them captive as they sailed the ship down the River Derwent.

Off Cape Frederick they released their captives – Mansel, the captain and three seamen – and set them adrift in the ship's boat.

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