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 City of York in London, 1967
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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Namesake | York, England (original) |
| Port of registry |
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| Builder | Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Yard number | 122 |
| Launched | 30 March 1953 |
| Maiden voyage | 17 November 1953[1] |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Capsized in 2003 |
| Notes | Location 38.024673,23.489579 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 164.8 m (540 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 21.7 m (71 ft 2 in) |
| Decks | 4 |
| Propulsion | Twin-screw with 2 × six-cylinder, two-stroke, opposed-piston Hawthorn-Leslie-Doxford 67LB6 of 12,850 bhp (9,580 kW) (total) at 115 rpm. |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Capacity |
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MS Mediterranean Sky was a combination-passenger liner built in 1953 for Ellerman Lines' service between London and South Africa.[2] Originally named TSMV[a] City of York, she was sold in 1971 to Karageorgis Lines, converted to a cruiseferry and renamed.[3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "The Ellerman Quartet". ssmaritime.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
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