Bristol City Line

[2] Just under a year later, on 3 December 1881, her sister ship the first SS Bath City sprang a leak off Grand Banks, Newfoundland and sank.

[2] In July 1893 Llandaff City successfully towed the crippled transatlantic Liner Olympia with 250 passengers aboard after the latter had been drifting for four days with a broken shaft.

[2] On 19 August 1915 the German submarine U-24 shelled and sank the second SS New York City about 40 miles off Fastnet Rock.

In January 1933 the second SS Exeter City was abandoned in a gale and sank about 600 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.

[2] On 1 July 1941 the first SS Toronto City was serving as a weather ship in the Atlantic when U-108 torpedoed and sank her with the loss of all hands.

[2] However, in 1971 Bibby Line took over the company and the ship was completed as the 31,036 MV Dart America, a vessel that was crewed and managed for Clarke Traffic Services Ltd of Montreal.