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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| MEDINA |
131849 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1911 |
14/03/1911 |
09/1911 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger Liner
| Steel Screw Steamer 3 masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Caird & Company, Greenock |
Westburn West |
317 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 12358 grt / 7358 nrt / |
550.0 ft |
62.0 ft |
34.0 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Caird & Company, Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| 2-Screw. 2xQ4cyl, 14,000 ihp, 18.5 knots on trials |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Greenock |
Greenock |
28/10/1911 |
| Other names |
| 1911 HMS MEDINA - 1912 MEDINA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
P/C (reefer).
Last "M" class.
During construction it was decided that Medina would convey the King-Emperor, ie. His Majesty King George V and Queen Mary, to India, where the Coronation Durbar was to be held at Delhi on 2/12/1911.
10/10/1911 commissioned into the Royal Navy, and her crew were mainly naval personnel. Medina was provided with an extra mast, necessary to maintain royal flag etiquette for flying The Royal Standard, and she was finished with a white hull with bands of royal blue and gold, and buff funnels. Various large rooms intended for public use were redecorated as royal apartments.
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1917 |
Torpedoed 01/02/1917 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Torpedoed in the starboard side by UB-31 when 3 miles ENE of Start Point, while on route from Sydney and India via Plymouth for London. Five engine room staff were killed and 411 passengers and crew took to the boats and were towed ashore |
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HMS Medina
Image courtesy of : Green Collection – State of Victoria Library
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At Malta as Royal Yacht
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Medina
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