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Career
Name:	Media (1946-61) Flavia (1961-82) Flavian (1983-86) Lavia (1986-89)
Owner:	Cunard White Star Line (1947-50) Cunard Line (1950-61) Compagnia Genovese de Armamento SpA (1961-69) Costa Armatori SpA (1969-82) Flavian Shipping SA (1982-86) Lavia Shipping SA (1986-89)
Operator:	Cunard White Star Line (1947-50) Cunard Line (1950-61) Cogedar Line (1961-69) Costa Line (1969-82) C Y Tung Group (1982-86) Virtue Shipping Company (1986-89)
Port of registry:	Liverpool (1947-61) Genoa (1961-82) Panama City (1982-89)
Route:	Liverpool - New York (1947-61) Bremerhaven - Rotterdam - Tilbury - Curacao - Panama Canal - Papeete - Auckland - Sydney - Melbourne - Fremantle - Aden - Suez Canal - Port Said - Cannes - Tilbury - Rotterdam - Bremerhaven (1962-67) Bremerhaven - Rotterdam - Tilbury - Curacao - Panama Canal - Papeete - Auckland - Sydney - Melbourne - South Africa - Tilbury - Rotterdam - Bremerhaven (1967-68) Miami - Bahamas (1968-77, 1978-82)
Builder:	John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank
Yard number:	629
Launched:	12 December 1946
Completed:	August 1947
Maiden voyage:	20 August 1947
Identification:	UK Official Number 181093 (1947-61) Italian Official Number 3260 (1961-69) Italian Official Number 1069 (1969-82) IMO Number 5116139 (1961-89)
Fate:	Caught fire 7 January 1989, scrapped June 1989
General characteristics
Type:	Cargo liner (1947-61) Ocean liner (1961-69) Cruise ship (1969-89)
Tonnage:	13,345 GRT, 11,636 DWT (1947-61) 15,456 GRT (1961-89)
Length:	531 ft (161.85 m) (1947-61) 557 ft (169.77 m) (1961-89)
Beam:	70 ft (21.34 m)
Draught:	26 ft (7.92 m)
Installed power:	Two steam turbines 15,000 hp (11,000 kW), double reduction geared
Propulsion:	Twin propellors
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h)
Capacity:	250 1st class (Media) 1,320 tourist class (Flavia) 850 tourist class (Flavian, Lavia)

Lavia was a cruise ship that caught fire and sank in Hong Kong Harbour in 1989. She was built for Cunard White Star Line in 1947 as the cargo liner Media. In 1961 she was sold to Italy, rebuilt as an ocean liner and renamed Flavia. In 1969, she was refitted as a cruise ship and renamed Flavian. In 1982 she was sold to Panama and renamed Lavia. She was undergoing a refit when the fire occurred. The damage to her was so great that she was scrapped.

History[link]

Media[link]

Media was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire.^[1] She was yard number 629 and was launched on 12 December 1947, with completion in August 1948.^[2]

Media and her sister ship Parthia were the first ships built for Cunard after the conclusion of World War II, and were built for transatlantic service between Liverpool and New York City.^[3] Media's maiden voyage began on 20 August 1947 from Liverpool.^[3] She received a major refit in 1953, part of which was the introduction of stabilisers; Media was the first ship on the transatlantic route so equipped.^[3][4] She continued on the transatlantic trade through the late 1950s, by which time competition from jet aircraft had cut into her passenger trade, and newer, faster cargo ships had done the same to her cargo trade.^[1][3]

Flavia[link]

In July 1961, Media was sold for £740,000 to the Italian Cogedar Line to replace their Flaminia. She remained in service with Cunard until 30 September. On 12 October she was handed over in Liverpool, arriving at Genoa on 21 October. A nine month refit by Officine A & R Navi, Genoa transformed her from a cargo liner to an ocean liner. A new bow increased her length by 26 feet (7.92 m) and a new funnel was provided.^[4] The refit increased her displacement from 13,345 GRT to 15,465 GRT.^[2] She could now carry 1,320 tourist class passengers. The ship was renamed Flavia and used for round the world cruises and to transport emigrants to Australia.^[1] on 2 October 1962, Flavia departed from Genoa on her maiden voyage for the Cogedar Line. Sailing via the Suez Canal she visited Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney, arriving on 9 October. Departing from Sydney on 10 October, she sailed to Bremerhaven, which was to be her base for round the world cruises.^[4]

The route that Flavia took on her round the world cruises was Bremerhaven - Rotterdam - Tilbury - Curaçao - Panama Canal - Papeete - Auckland - Sydney - Melbourne - Fremantle - Aden - Suez Canal - Port Said - Cannes - Tilbury - Rotterdam - Bremerhaven. With the closure of the Suez Canal in 1967 as a result of the Six Day War, Flavia sailed via South Africa on her return to Europe.^[4] In 1968, the Cogedar Line was taken over by the Costa Line.^[1] She was refitted with her accommodation upgraded and a reduction in berths to 850 passengers transformed her into a cruise ship. She was used for cruises from Miami to the Bahamas until July 1977. She was then used for cruises in South America until April 1978, followed by Mediterranean cruises until September 1978, following which she resumed service on the Miami - Bahamas cruises.^[4] By the early 1980s, Flavia was showing her age and was becoming too expensive to operate.^[1]

Flavian[link]

She was sold to the Virtue Shipping Company of Hong Kong and renamed Flavian. It was intended to use her as a casino cruise ship but these cruises were unpopular and Flavian spent the majority of the time moored in Hong Kong Harbour.^[1]

Lavia[link]

In 1982, the ship was renamed Lavia and a refit was started. On 7 January 1989, a workman's fire got out of control. It spread throughout the ship although all nine crew and 35 workmen on board escaped unharmed. Four fireboats and over 250 firefighters tackled the blaze but Lavia sank owing to the vast amounts of water pumped aboard her in an effort to put out the flames. The ship was refloated and towed to Taiwan,^[1] where she arrived on 19 June. She was scrapped by Chi Shun Hia Steel Co Ltd, Kaohsiung.^[2]

Description and propulsion[link]

Media was 531 feet (161.85 m) long, with a beam of 70 feet (21.34 m) and a draught of 26 feet (7.92 m).^[4] She was propelled by two steam turbines of 15,000 horsepower (11,000 kW),^[5] double reduction geared, driving twin propellors.^[4] These gave her a speed of 18 knots (33 km/h).^[5] After her rebuild by Officine A & R Navi, Flavia was 557 feet (169.77 m) long.^[4] As built, she was 13,345 GRT and 11,636 DWT, following her rebuild, she was 15,465 GRT.^[5]

Identification[link]

Media had the United Kingdom Official Number 181093 from 1947-61. In 1961, the ship was allocated the IMO Number 5116139. Flavia also had the Italian Official Number 3260 from 1961–69 and 1069 from 1969-82.^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Media on Chris' Cunard Page

RMS may refer to:

Science and technology[link]

• Root mean square, a measure of the spread of a quantity

• Watt RMS, often referred to as "RMS", a root mean square related to average audio power

• Rate-monotonic scheduling, a scheduling technique in operating systems
• Reconfigurable Manufacturing System, a system designed to respond to changes in market conditions or customer demand
• Any system that implements records management

• Record Management Services, in OpenVMS
• Record Management System, a persistent storage mechanism available to some Java ME configurations

• Remote Manipulator System, a mechanical arm of the Space Shuttle that maneuvers payloads
• Rights Management Services, a component of MS Windows Server 2003
• Rostral migratory stream, leading new neurons to the olfactory bulb
• RMS thread, also known as society thread, is a special 0.8"-36 Whitworth thread form used for microscope objective lenses. It is named after the Royal Microscopical Society

People, groups, and organizations[link]

• Railway Mail Service, US mail transportation service until the mid-20th century
• Regroupement des militants syndicaux, a political organization
• Republik Maluku Selatan, a separatist movement in Indonesia that proclaimed an independent "Republic of the South Moluccas" in the 1950s
• Richard Matthew Stallman (sometimes abbreviated "rms"), founder of the GNU Project
• Royal Medical Society
• Royal Meteorological Society
• Royal Microscopical Society, at the forefront of new ideas and developments in microscopy and imaging
• Royal Society of Miniature Painters Sculptors and Gravers, known as the Royal Miniatures Society
• RMS (band), a jazz/rock fusion band
• Russian Mineralogical Society
• Russian Musical Society, an organisation founded in 1859 and disbanded in 1917.
• Records Management Society, now known as the Information and Records Management Society.
• Roads and Maritime Services
• Ramanujan Mathematical Society

Companies[link]

• Raytheon Missile Systems
• Rotana Media Services, the advertising and marketing wing of Rotana Group
• RMS Communications, a broadband and cable TV component supplier
• Risk Management Solutions, a catastrophe risk modeling company, subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust

Schools[link]

• Radnor Middle School, in Radnor, Pennsylvania, USA
• Reims Management School, in Reims, France
• Richland Middle School, in Richland Hills, Texas, USA
• Robert May's School, in Hampshire, England
• Rocky Mountain semester, semester school in Leadville, Colorado, USA. now called High Mountain Institute Semester
• Romulus Middle School, in Romulus, Michigan, USA
• Roosevelt Middle School (Oakland, California), in Oakland, California, USA
• Royal Masonic School, Hertfordshire, England
• Rice Middle School, in Plano, Texas, USA
• Robinson Middle School, in Plano, Texas, USA
• Rosemount Middle School, in Rosemount, Minnesota, USA
• Riverwood Middle School, in Kingwood, Texas, USA

Other[link]

• Relocation services, employee relocation firms
• Royal Mail Ship or Steamer, a ship prefix for vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail
• Royal Melbourne Show
• The Rachel Maddow Show (radio), a radio show on the now-defunct Air America Media network
• The Rachel Maddow Show (TV series), a television show on MSNBC
• Santiago Metropolitan Region (Región Metropolitana de Santiago) in Chile
• rms, Romanian Sign Language ISO 639 code
• Ramstein Air Base - IATA code

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Look up media in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Media may refer to:

Communications[link]

• Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
  • Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
  • Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks
  • Digital media, electronic media used to store, transmit, and receive digitized information
  • Electronic media, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy
  • Hypermedia, media with hyperlinks
  • Mass media, all means of mass communications
  • Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
  • New media, a broad term encompassing the amalgamation of traditional media with the interactive power of computer and communications technology
  • News media, mass media focused on communicating news
  • News media (United States), the news media of the United States of America
  • Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas
  • Published media, any media made available to the public
  • Recording media, devices used to store information
  • Social media, media disseminated through social interaction
  • MEDIA Programme, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector

Computing[link]

• Media (computer), used in computer data storage devices
• Media player (application software), a piece of software designed to play audio and videos

Fine art[link]

• Media (arts), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work

History[link]

• Median Empire, an ancient Iranian kingdom of the Medians (Medes) in north-western Iran

Life sciences[link]

• Growth medium, objects in which microorganisms or cells can experience growth
• Media filter, a filter consisting of several different filter materials
• Tunica media, the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel
• A group of insect wing veins in the Comstock-Needham system

Places[link]

• Media, Illinois
• Media, Pennsylvania

Music[link]

• Media (album), the 1998 album by The Faint

Mythology[link]

• Medea, the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis in Greek mythology

Ships[link]

• RMS Media, a Cunard Line cargo liner in service 1948-61

See also[link]

• Media ecology
• Media meshing
• Media psychology
• Media studies
• Medium (disambiguation)
• Multimedia learning
• Kaus Media, a star system in the constellation Sagittarius

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