The 10,902 GRT passenger and cargo ship City of Paris was built at the Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Wallsend , Tyne and Wear . It was launched on December 24, 1920 and was completed in February 1922. The 147.7 meter long and 18.1 meter wide ship was licensed to carry 349 passengers. In September 1925, the American industrialist James Deering died while traveling on the City of Paris .
On September 16, 1939, the City of Paris with 139 people on board ran 3.5 nautical miles east-northeast of Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast to a sea mine , which on September 4 was carried out by the German submarine U 13 (Kapitänleutnant Karl Daublebsky von Eichhain) was laid. She had left London two days earlier and was loading general cargo . One crew member was killed and the ship was damaged. The City of Paris was towed to Tilbury by the tugs Contest and Atlantic Cock . After about a month of repairs, the ship was back in service.
From 1940 the City of Paris served as a troop transport during World War II . From September 1945 she was used as a residential ship. In 1946 she was briefly used again as a troop transport, but returned to Ellerman Lines in the same year. In 1947 she returned to the passenger service and provided this for almost nine years until she was decommissioned in February 1956 and scrapped in Newport (Wales).
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