A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK OF R.M.S. MEDINA, LOST 1917

approximately forty items comprising printed and manuscript ephemera in a wide range of conditions, each in an annotated plastic fronted envelope; together with a small surgeon's pocket set containing a syringe and other instruments in a brass case

(A lot)

Provenance: Medina Cargo Sale, Sotheby's Billingshurst, 1988

Medina was a handsome 12,358 ton P&O liner built by Caird & Co. in 1911 for the London-Australia route. Chartered as a Royal Yacht to take King George V and Queen Mary to the Delhi Durbar of 1911, she was delivered to P&O in 1912 and remained in service during the Great War. She was torpedoed by U-31 off Start Point on 28th April, 1917 and her wreck is upright with a 15° list to port allowing for the partial salvage of some of her forward compartments.