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PS Medina (ex - The Times)
Built in 1852 by J White at Cowes
Engines by Summers, Day and Baldock
Dimensions: 120.8 ft x 14.9 ft
104 Gross Registered Tons

Purchased by the for the Isle of Wight Royal Mail Steam Packet Co after she had apparently been ordered by but never completed for a potential new independent operator.
Renamed Medina by the Isle of Wight Company
Taken over by the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South Coast company in 1861
Scrapped in 1883

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