Toronto City
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| Name | Toronto City | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2,486 tons | ||
| Completed | 1925 - Barclay, Curle & Co, Whiteinch, Glasgow | ||
| Owner | Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol | ||
| Homeport | Bristol | ||
| Date of attack | 1 Jul 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-108 (Klaus Scholtz) | ||
| Position | 47.03N, 30W - Grid BD 5654 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 35 (35 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | to St. Johns | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Built as Nigerian, 1935 renamed Kyrenia for Moss Hutchison Line, Liverpool, 1937 sold to Bristol City Line and renamed Toronto City. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 18.25 hours on 1 Jul, 1941, the unescorted Toronto City (Master Edwin John Garlick) was hit in the bow by one G7e torpedo from U-108 north of the Azores and sank by the bow within three minutes. The Germans questioned 23 survivors on rafts and debris, but the master and 34 crew members were never seen again. The ship had been employed as a weather observation ship in the Atlantic since September 1940. | ||
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