SS City of Paris was a steam passenger ship launched in 1920 and completed in 1922 for the Ellerman Lines.[1] She was requisitioned for service by the British government during the Second World War.
History
City of Paris was built in 1922 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, at their yards in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, for Ellerman Lines Ltd, of London. She was registered in Glasgow.
On 17 October 1933, City of Paris ran aground in the Mediterranean Sea off France's Saraman Lighthouse.[2] She was refloated the next day.[3]
On 16 September 1939, whilst carrying 139 people during World War II, the ship struck a mine that had been laid by the German submarine GS U-13 (1935)