In addition to the famous Inman Line's City of Paris which won the "Blue Riband" as the fastest liner across the Atlantic, there was another ship of that name owned by the Ellerman City Line Ltd of Glasgow.
On April 4th, 1917, the British passenger steamer SS City Of Paris, on a voyage from Karachi to Marseille & Liverpool with passengers and general cargo, was sunk by the German submarine UC-35 (Ernst von Voigt), 46 miles SxE of Cap d'Antibes.
Those on the vessel got into the boats the submarine commander shouted for the captain, but he could not be found. The submarine fired a second torpedo and finished her off. All in all 122 people were killed. French warships picked up three lifeboats containing 29 dead Lascar crew members. Another 12 dead were found in a nother boat and the rest were never seen again.