[1] Between November 1911 and February 1912 Medina took King George V and Queen Mary to India for the Delhi Durbar.

RMS Medina was the last of ten ships[2] ordered by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company of the ‘M’ class.

[1] During building it was decided that Medina would take King George V and Queen Mary to India for the Delhi Durbar.

Medina left Portsmouth for India on the afternoon of 11 November 1911 (being saluted from the guns of HMS Victory, then still afloat in Portsmouth harbour), returning on 4 February 1912, after which she returned to Caird and Co. for refitting.

[citation needed] SM UB-31 torpedoed her off Start Point, Devon on 28 April 1917.