Engineering:MS City of York
 City of York in London, 1967
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| Builder: | Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Yard number: | 122 |
| Launched: | 30 March 1953 |
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| Fate: | Capsized in 2003 |
| Notes: | Location 38.024673,23.489579 |
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| Class and type: | 11,582 t DWT |
| Length: | 164.8m - 541ft |
| Beam: | 21.7m – 71.2ft |
| Propulsion: | Twin-screw with 2 x six-cylinder, two-stroke, opposed-piston Hawthorn-Leslie-Doxford 67LB6 of 12,850 bhp (total) at 115 rpm. |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots |
The MS City of York was a combination-passenger liner built in 1953 for Ellerman Lines' service between London and South Africa . Sold in 1971 to Karageorgis Lines, she was converted to a cruiseferry and renamed MS Mediterranean Sky.[1]
History
The City of York was built by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering of Barrow-in-Furness in the United Kingdom. Along with her three sister ships, the City of Port Elizabeth, City of Exeter and City of Durban, she operated on the route between London, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Lourenço Marques and Beira, making passage between London and Cape Town in 15 days.[1]
In 1971, she was sold, along with her three sister ships, to Karageorgis Lines. Along with City of Exeter, she was converted into a ferry and renamed Mediterranean Sky.[1][2]
The Mediterranean Sky sailed for the last time in 1996. She started listing after being laid up in Eleusis Bay, Greece. The abandoned ship was then towed to shallow water where she was beached on 26 November 2002. She capsized and sank by January 2003 with the half-submerged wreck still visible in 2021. In 2017 graffiti crew OneUp painted “1UP” on the exposed side of the ship, covering about 1/2 of the total exposed area. The wreck is visible from Google Earth as of 2021. [3]
Gallery
Mediterranean Sky during renovation in Perama, 1986
Mediterranean Sky laid up in Eleusis, 9 August 2002.
Laid-up in 2000 alongside Amerikanis and Regent Star.
Wreck of Mediterranean Sky, 2011.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "The Ellerman Quartet". http://ssmaritime.com/ellerman.htm.
- ↑ "City of York - Mediterranean Sky Cabin Plan". http://ssmaritime.com/ellerman-klineplan2.htm.
- ↑ "Photo search - ShipSpotting.com - Ship Photos and Ship Tracker". http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?search_imo=5074226.
External links
[ ⚑ ] 38°01′28″N 23°29′21″E / 38.0244°N 23.4892°E
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