SS City of Leeds was a British North Sea passenger and cargo steamship that was built in Yorkshire in 1903 and scrapped in Northumberland 1937.
In 1903 Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering of Hull, Yorkshire built a pair of ferries for the Great Central Railway.
[5] When the First World War began at the end of July 1914, City of Leeds was caught unawares, arrived in Hamburg as scheduled and was captured as a prize.
Her captain and crew were interned, and the German navy had her converted into a mine depot ship.
[2] After the Armistice of 11 November 1918 her crew was repatriated[6] and City of Leeds was returned to Grimsby.