In December 1940 City of Bradford collided in fog the North Atlantic with another British cargo ship, Bodnant.

The second was a steam turbine ship that Alexander Stephen and Sons launched in 1950 and Ellerman Lines sold in 1972.

The turbine drove the same shaft as her piston engine by double-reduction gearing[5] and a Föttinger fluid coupling.

[5] In the Second World War City of Bedford traded between India, Burma, Ceylon, and the east coast of Canada and the United States.

[9] On 30 December in fog 280 miles south of Iceland HX 97 ran into Convoy OB 265 coming in the opposite direction.