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MEDITERRANEAN SKY - IMO 5074226

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Photographer:
GEORGE GBIDIS [ View profile ]
Captured:
Oct 6, 2007
Title:
Mediterranean Sky
Location:
Elefsis, Eleusis, Greece
Photo Category:
Wrecks & Relics
Added:
Sep 16, 2015
Views:
2,469
Image Resolution:
2,000 x 925

Description:

MS Mediterranean Sky was an ocean liner built in 1953 by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom as City of York. She capsized and sank after being laid up in Elevsis Bay, Greece in 2003.

Vessel
particulars

Current name:
MEDITERRANEAN SKY

Former name(s):

 -  City Of York (Until 1971)

IMO:
5074226
Status:
Dead
Build year:
1953
Builder:
Swan Hunter High Walker - Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.k.
Vessel Type:
Ro-ro/passenger Ship
Gross tonnage:
16,533 tons
Summer DWT:
11,582 tons
Photos:
37 photos by 24 photographers

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This ship exists in the following categories:

Ferries - 5 photos

Cruise Ships and Liners - 1 photos

Wrecks & Relics - 19 photos

General cargo ships built 1950-1959 (Over 3000gt) - 10 photos

Cruise Ships and Liners built 1950-1960 - 2 photos

Photographers
of this ship

(24)

S

1 photos

Pieter_Inpijn

3 photos

simonwp

1 photos

PWR

1 photos

Aleksi Lindström

3 photos

Dulko

1 photos

dedge

1 photos

Nafplion

2 photos

Eric HOURI

1 photos

Russell Judge

1 photos

Anton Heuff

1 photos

Malcolm Cranfield

1 photos

Chris Howell

2 photos

Andreas Hoppe

2 photos

carlo martinelli

2 photos

det

2 photos

fabianv

1 photos

Giwrgos Mertis

4 photos

George Givisis

1 photos

GEORGE GBIDIS

2 photos

Bob Scott

1 photos

Linesman

1 photos

Wolfgang Fricke

1 photos

Rijsdijk.1

1 photos

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person
I Passed today 17/9/2015 from Elefsis bay and she is still lying there http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2324698#

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person
Doug is absolutely correct, one of a quartet built at Vickers Armstrong on the Tyne.

Allan

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person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Mediterranean_Sky

Somebody's wrong

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person
Built Vickers Armstrong,High Walker,RiverTyne.1953.

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person
Vickers on West Coast-Swan Hunter on East Coast which is correct

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person
Great pic mate!

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person
She is still laying in capesized condition in the Elvisis Bay (Greece). Google maps link:
https://www.google.de/maps/place/38%C2%B001'28.8%22N+23%C2%B029'24.0%22E/@38.0246639,23.4899889,525m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
Source: http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/09/shipwreck-of-mediterranean-sky-formely.html
Regards Peter

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More info please, what actually happened?, what was the cause of her foundering? Is she still lying there or has she been scrapped on site or raised and scrapped elsewhere? Thanks and regards.

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