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Name: CITY OF YORK
Type: Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 30/03/1953
Completed: 10/1953
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 122
Dimensions: 13345grt, 7523nrt, 11400dwt, 541.0 x 71.2 x 28.5ft
Engines: 2 x Oil engines, 2SCSA, Doxford type, 6cyl (670 x 2320mm), 12650bhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 17.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 185966
History:
26/10/1953 Ellerman Lines Ltd, London
1971 Pandiestra Oceanica Navigation SA, Piraeus; renamed MEDITERRANEAN SKY
No further history known
Comments: Sisters CITY OF PORT ELIZABETH, CITY OF EXETER, CITY OF YORK & CITY OF DURBAN
Built for the London, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London,
Durban, Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) and Beira service
Accommodation for 107 x 1st Class passengers
1972: Converted to a limited roll on roll off capability
26/11/2002: Taking in water, so beached at Eleusis
By 01/2003: Capsized at Eleusis, Greece


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Above photo as CITY OF YORK is copyright of Chris Howell

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Above photo as CITY OF YORK is courtesy of Kevin Blair. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return

Above photo as CITY OF YORK is copyright of Graham Walker. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return

Above photo as MEDITERRANEAN SKY is copyright of Simon

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