Engineering:MS Mediterranean Sky

City of York in London, 1967
History
Name:	City of York (1953-1971) Mediterranean Sky (1971-2003)
Port of registry:	London (1953-1982) Greece (1982-2003)
Builder:	Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness
Yard number:	122
Launched:	30 March 1953
Identification:	IMO number: 5074226 Call sign: SXMA
Fate:	Capsized in 2003
Notes:	Location 38.024673,23.489579
General characteristics
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 Mediterranean Sky was a combination-passenger liner built in 1953 for Ellerman Lines' service between London and South Africa . Originally named MS City of York, she was sold in 1971 to Karageorgis Lines, converted to a cruiseferry and renamed.

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.

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.

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.

Wreck of Mediterranean Sky, 2011

External links

• Mediterranean Sky wreck photo