HMS Unity (1913)

HMS Unity was an Acasta class (later K-class) destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Acasta class was larger and more powerful than the preceding Acorn class. The Acasta class was larger and more powerful than the preceding Acorn class. They were the last Royal Navy destroyers named without a theme, although it was proposed to rename them all with names beginning with the letter K. Had this happened, Unity would have been renamed Kinsale. Launched in 1913, Unity joined the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, which, at the beginning of the First World War, became part of the Grand Fleet. Unity participated in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, supporting the Second Cruiser Squadron and, after briefly escorting the armoured cruiser Hampshire, carrying the secretary of state for war, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, to Russia, in the search from survivors of when the ship was sunk by a mine. The destroyer subsequently undertook other escort duties, both for individual ships and convoys, After the 1918 Armistice that ended the war, Unity was transferred to reserve and was sold to be to be broken up in 1922.