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SS City of Glasgow was a British passenger ship of in operation between 1906 and 1918. She was torpedoed and sunk by 21nmi 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.[1]
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 135m (443feet) long, had a beam of 16.3m (53.5feet) and a depth of 9.2m (30.2feet). She was assessed at 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 and had two masts and one funnel.[2]
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 21nmi 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, which also took pictures of the foundering ship.[3]
The wreck of City of Glasgow is believed to lay at (52.2833°N -43°W) in of water. A wreck, with its bow broken off, was discovered at the location, but was positively identified as (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.[4]
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