MS Mediterranean Sky

MS Mediterranean Sky was a combination-passenger liner built in 1953 by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom as City of York.[1]

Mediterranean Sky during renovation in Perama, 1986
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:
Fate: Capsized in 2003
Notes: Location 38.024673,23.489579
General characteristics
Tonnage:
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

In 1971, she was sold, alongside with her three sister ships, to Karageorgis lines and renamed Mediterranean Sky. Two of them, including City of York and "City of Exeter" (renamed into "Mediterannean Sea " were converted into ferries.[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 2020.[3]

  • 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. "The Ellerman Quartet". ssmaritime.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  2. "City of York - Mediterranean Sky Cabin Plan". ssmaritime.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  3. "Photo search - ShipSpotting.com - Ship Photos and Ship Tracker". www.shipspotting.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.

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