Hellenic Mediterranean Lines

Built 1913 by Irvine's Shipbuilding, West Hartlepool

4,856 gross tons, 350ft x 50ft beam

ex: Digby - Furness Warren
Artois - French Navy
Dominica - Furness Bermuda
Baltrover - United Baltic

Later: Ionian

1965: capsized and sank at Djakarta - broken up

Photo of forward well deck with Tourist B class passengers boarding at Beirut in July 1961