| Name: | MALINES |
| Type: | Passenger Ship |
| Launched: | 06/01/1921 |
| Completed: | 07/1921 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 972 |
| Dimensions: | 2969grt, 1257nrt, 320.7 x 43.2 x 25.7ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, 1525nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 21.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 145402 |
| History: | |
| 09/03/1922 | Great Eastern Railway Company, Harwich |
| 1923 | London & North Eastern Railway Company, Harwich |
| 11/1940 | The Admiralty; renamed HMS MALINES |
| 1944 | Ministry of War Transport (General Steam Navigation Co), Harwich |
| 04/1948 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Built for the Harwich to Continental Ports services |
| Accommodation for 262 x 1st Class & 112 x other passengers plus 90 x horses | |
| 11/1940: Requisitioned by the Admiralty & commissioned as escort vessel HMS MALINES | |
| 19/07/1942: Torpedoed by Italian aircraft off Port Said & beached to prevent sinking | |
| 01/1943: Refloated and given temporary repairs | |
| Became a training ship at Kabret for the rest of the war | |
| 14/06/1945: While returning to UK holds flooded 80 miles off Oporto. Towed to Lisbon | |
| 07/11/1945: Arrived on Tyne, towed by EMPIRE SUSAN | |
| Assessed for repairs by Wallsend Slipway but deemed not commercially viable | |
| 04/1946: Moved to buoys at Dunston | |
| 04/1948: Breaking up commenced by Clayton & Davie Ltd at Dunston | |
| 04/10/1948: Breaking up completed |
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo taken at Port Said is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo, taken at Dunston in 1947, is copyright of Britain From Above
Diss Express, Friday, 24/03/1922