Doulos Phos: He bought the world’s oldest passenger ship — and spent $18 million turning it into a hotel

Bintan, Indonesia
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In 1914, two years after the Titanic embarked on its ill-fated maiden voyage, the steam-powered SS Medina rolled off the shipyard at Newport News, Virginia.

The vessel has had many lives — and many names — since, in a career that eventually made it the oldest active passenger ship on the oceans….