MV Doulos Phos
MV Doulos Phos hoisted onto dry land and converted into a hotel in Bintan, Indonesia | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Medina |
| Namesake | Medina River, Texas |
| Operator | Mallory Steamship Company (1914–1932) Clyde-Mallory Line (1932–1948) |
| Ordered | 28 August 1913 |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company |
| Yard number | 176 |
| Laid down | 21 January 1914 |
| Launched | 22 August 1914 |
| Sponsored by | Frances Stuart Semmes |
| Christened | 22 August 1914 |
| Acquired | 29 September 1914 |
| Commissioned | 29 September 1914 |
| Fate | Transferred to Cia Naviera San Miguel SA, 1948 |
| Panama | |
| Name | Roma |
| Operator | Cia Naviera San Miguel SA |
| Acquired | 1948 |
| Fate | Sold to Costa Lines, 1953 |
| Italy | |
| Name | Franca C |
| Operator | Costa Lines |
| Port of registry | Genoa, Italy |
| Acquired | 1953 |
| Fate | Sold to Gute Bücher für Alle, 1977 |
| Malta | |
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| Port of registry | Valletta, Malta |
| Identification | |
| Fate | converted to a static hotel ship, 2015 |
| Notes | Greek "Doulos" means "Servant", "Doulos Phos" means "Servant of Light" |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Tonnage | 5,426 GRT |
| Length | 427.66 feet (130.35 m) |
| Beam | 55.2 feet (16.8 m) |
| Height | 54 feet (16 m) |
| Draught | 18.2 feet (5.5 m) |
| Installed power | Single triple-expansion engine, 4 coal-fired boilers, 4,100 horsepower (3,100 kW) shaft power (Converted to oil 1922) |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| General characteristics (1949 onwards) | |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Capacity | 414 |
| Crew | 350 |
MV Doulos Phos is a retired ocean liner, and former cruise ship that held the record of being the world's oldest active ocean-going passenger ship, serving from 1914 until December 2009. She is now owned by Eric Saw, director and chief executive of BizNaz Resources International Pte Ltd in Singapore. She was previously operated by the German charity Gute Bücher für Alle (Good Books for All), and was used as a floating bookshop and missionary ship. The ship has previously been known as the SS Medina, the SS Roma, the MV Franca C, and the MV Doulos. Doulos ended her final cruise in late 2009 at Singapore, with the ship being handed over to her new owners on 18 March 2010. The ship underwent a three-year conversion into a luxury hotel that saw the ship mounted on dry land in nearby Bintan, Indonesia, and opened in June 2019.