MS City of Durban
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The City of Durban departed London May 1994 and joined her sisters’ successful service to Africa. However, she and her three sisters were sold to Michael A. Karageorgis Group in 1971, when she was renamed Mediterranean Dolphin.
Built: 1953 Vickers Armstong, Newcastle, England
Yard: 123
GRT: 13,345-tons
Launched: 28 May 1953
Completed: May 1954
Length: 164.8m - 541ft
Beam: 21.7m – 71.2ft
Engines: Doxford Type Diesels – 12,650 BHP
Propellers: Twin
Speed: 18.8kn max / 16.5kn service speed
Passengers: 107 - First Class
Later Names: Mediterranean Dolphin 1971.
City of Durban was the last of the series to be built, but sadly, she was the first of the famous Quartet to be scrapped.
City of Durban suffered the same fate as the City of Port of Elizabeth. Although Karageorgis Lines had intentions to convert her and her sister into a car ferry, then later as a luxury cruise ship. They both remained idle. On March 30 1974, Mediterranean Dolphin arrived at Kaohsiung, and was broken up.
