Conclusion

The “City of Port Elizabeth” class were indeed notable ships, Ellerman’s last deep sea combination-passenger liners, but, many forget that they were the last vessels of their kind to operate from the port of Hull.

Front cover of a Mediterranean Sea cabin plan

After the rebuilding, the transformation of the City of York and the City of Exeter was, to say the least, extreme. Karageorgis turned these graceful ocean liners to futuristic style ferries, which most “salts” will consider as “nothing short of a travesty”!

Today, the sole survivor, City of York / Mediterranean Sky lies on her side at Eleusis Bay, and has been awaiting her fate for the last two years.

The elegant Ellerman Port of Durban – seen here in the way we love to remember them