The City of Paris (II) was a 1907 passenger ship of the British shipping company Ellerman Lines , which carried passengers, freight and mail from Great Britain to India . On April 4, 1917, the City of Paris on the south coast of France was sunk by a German submarine . None of the 122 passengers and crew members survived.
The ship
The 9,191-ton steamer City of Paris has been at the shipyard Barclay Curle in Glasgow built district Whiteinch and ran on 10 August 1907 by the stack. The passenger and cargo steamer was 150.3 meters long, 17.53 meters wide and had a side height of 9.91 meters. In October 1907 the ship was completed. It had a chimney, two masts and a single propeller. The four-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engine developed 670 nominal horsepower and allowed a speed of 15 knots (27.8 km / h). There was space on board for 272 first class passengers and 64 second class passengers.
The City of Paris was built for Ellerman Lines, a British shipping company based in London that had existed since 1892 and whose steamers mainly served passenger and freight traffic to the Mediterranean , the Middle East and India . She was the second ship of the shipping company to bear this name. The City of Paris was planned and deployed the route Liverpool - Bombay . In 1911 she set a record on the route when she covered a journey within 19 days and an hour. From 1915, the City of Paris was also used as a troop transport in the service of the British government .
On Wednesday April 4, 1917, the City of Paris was on a journey from Karachi via Marseille to Liverpool. On board were 109 crew members, 13 passengers and ordinary cargo. Troops were not on board on this voyage. Since the ship's command had been warned of submarines, the City of Paris steamed in a zigzag course.
Shortly after midnight on April 4, the ship was torpedoed 46 nautical miles southeast of Cap d'Antibes on the Côte d'Azur by the German submarine UC 35 under the command of Lieutenant Ernst von Voigt. While the steamer was evacuating, UC 35 appeared and opened fire on the ship. Shortly afterwards, von Voigt shot down a second torpedo, which finally brought the ship to sink. None of the 122 people on board survived. French patrol boats later found four lifeboats, but their 41 occupants were all dead. The rest of the people were never found.
