SS City of Glasgow (1906)

For other ships with the same name, see SS City of Glasgow.

History
United Kingdom
Name	City of Glasgow
Owner	Ellerman City Line ltd.
Port of registry	United Kingdom, Glasgow
Builder	Workman, Clark and Company
Yard number	226
Laid down	1906
Launched	1906
Completed	1906
Acquired	1906
Maiden voyage	1906
In service	1906
Out of service	1 September 1918
Identification	Official number: 121304
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk on 1 September 1918
Notes	HFQB
General characteristics
Type	Passenger ship
Tonnage	6,545 GRT
Length	135 metres (442 ft 11 in)
Beam	16.3 metres (53 ft 6 in)
Depth	9.2 metres (30 ft 2 in)
Installed power	1 x quadruple expansion engines
Propulsion	One screw propeller
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Notes	Two masts & one funnel

SS City of Glasgow was a British passenger ship of 6,545 gross register tons (GRT) in operation between 1906 and 1918. She was torpedoed and sunk by SM UB-118 21 nautical miles (39 km) east of the Tuskar Rock in the Irish Sea on 1 September 1918 with the loss of 12 of her crew, while she was travelling from Liverpool, United Kingdom to Montreal, Canada in ballast.

Construction

City of Glasgow was constructed for the Ellerman City Line at the Workman, Clark and Company shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland in 1906, and completed that same year. The ship was 135 metres (442 ft 11 in) long, had a beam of 16.3 metres (53 ft 6 in) and a depth of 9.2 metres (30 ft 2 in). She was assessed at 6,545 gross register tons (GRT) and had five boilers alongside a quadruple expansion engine producing 760 nhp, driving a single screw propeller. The ship could reach a maximum speed of 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) and had two masts and one funnel.

Sinking

City of Glasgow departed Liverpool for Montreal in convoy OL32/OE21 on 31 August 1918 as an armed merchant ship. The following day, she was torpedoed amidships without warning and sunk by SM UB-118 21 nautical miles (39 km) east of the Tuskar Rock in the Irish Sea after breaking in two. Twelve crewmembers were lost in the sinking, while the survivors were rescued by the destroyer USS Beale, which also took pictures of the foundering ship.

Wreck

The wreck of City of Glasgow is believed to lay at (52°17′N 5°38′W) in 96 metres (315 ft) of water. A wreck, with its bow broken off, was discovered at the location, but was positively identified as SS Mesaba (A cargo ship that was traveling in the same convoy as City of Glasgow and was sunk near the location of City of Glasgow by the same U-boat on the same day.) by a team from the University of Bangor in September 2022 by the use of sonar.