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|Ship country= [[United Kingdom]]
|Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|UK|civil}}
|Ship name= ''City of Paris''
|Ship operator= [[Ellerman Lines|Ellerman Lines Ltd]], [[London]] 
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|Ship builder= [[Swan Hunter|Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson]], [[Wallsend]]
|Ship yard number= 1129
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|Ship launched= 24 December 1920
|Ship completed= February 1922
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|Ship registry= {{flagicon|UK|civil}} [[Glasgow]]
|Ship identification= UK [[official number]]: 146256
|Ship fate= Scrapped 1956
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|Ship type= Passenger steamship
|Ship tonnage=*{{GRT|10902}}
*tonnage under deck 9423
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|Ship length= {{convert|484.7|ft|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam= {{convert|59.3|ft|abbr=on}}
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|Ship draught= {{convert|43|ft|0|in|abbr=on}}
|Ship depth= {{convert|32.6|ft|abbr=on}}
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|Ship decks= 2
|Ship power= 1,315 [[Horsepower#Nominal horsepower|NHP]]
|Ship propulsion= 3 [[Steam turbine#Marine propulsion|steam turbines]], double-reduction geared onto one propeller shaft
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'''SS ''City of Paris''''' was a steam passenger ship launched in 1920 and completed in 1922 for the [[Ellerman Lines]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/28.html|title=City of Paris (British Steam passenger ship) - Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net|website=uboat.net|access-date=2020-02-29}}</ref> 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|Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson]], at their yards in [[Wallsend]], [[Tyne and Wear]], for [[Ellerman Lines|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]].<ref name=Times181033a>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=British liner aground |date=18 October 1933 |page=14 |issue=46578 |column=C }}</ref> She was refloated the next day.<ref name=Times1991033a>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The City of Paris |date=19 October 1933 |page=11 |issue=46579 |column=D }}</ref>

On 16 September 1939, whilst carrying 139 people during [[World War II]], the ship struck a [[naval mine|mine]] that had been laid by the German [[submarine]]  {{GS|U-13|1935|2}} on 4 September. She was damaged, with one person being killed, but managed to make it to port for repairs. In May 1940, Ellerman Lines offered her, the [[SS City of Simla|SS ''City of Simla'']], and the [[SS City of Benares|SS ''City of Benares'']], for use as an evacuation ship. On 10 September 1940 she set sail with a large batch of [[Children's Overseas Reception Board|CORB]] children, and she reached Cape Town successfully. Due to the tragic sinking of the ''City of Benares'', she never carried evacuee children again. In 1941 she carried artillery equipment to Ethiopia for use in the [[Battle of Gondar]]<ref>https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80003923 Imperial War Museum: Bingham, Humphrey Francis (Oral History) Reel 3, about 20 minutes in</ref> (November 1941). In early February 1942 she carried the [[2/14th Battalion (Australia)|2/14th Battalion]] of the [[Australian Army]] from Bombay to Australia, arriving in [[Adelaide, South Australia]], on 24 March 1942.<ref name=AWM>{{cite web |url= http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_11265.asp |title=2/14th Battalion |work=Second World War, 1939–1945 units |publisher=Australian War Memorial |accessdate=18 April 2011}}</ref>

''City of Paris'' was converted into a personnel ship in 1944, and used as an [[accommodation ship]] from September 1945 until 1946. She was then briefly used again as a troopship before being returned to the Ellerman Lines. She was returned to commercial service in 1947 and scrapped in 1956.

==References==
{{Reflist}}{{1933 shipwrecks}}
{{September 1939 shipwrecks}}

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[[Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom]]
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