City of New York
| Name | City of New York | ||
| Type: | Motor passenger ship | ||
| Tonnage | 8.272 tons | ||
| Completed | 1930 - Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, Chester PA | ||
| Owner | American-South African Line Inc, New York | ||
| Homeport | New York | ||
| Date of attack | 29 Mar, 1942 | Nationality:  American | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-160 (Georg Lassen) | ||
| Position | 35.16N, 74.25W - Grid CA 8781 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 133 (24 dead and 109 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Capetown - Port of Spain, Trinidad - New York | ||
| Cargo | 6612 tons of chrome ore, wood, wool, hides and asbestos | ||
| History | Launched on 19 Oct, 1929 and made her maiden voyage in February 1930 as the first ship of the American-South African Line. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 19.36 hours on 29 Mar, 1942, the unescorted City of New York (Master George T. Sullivan) was torpedoed by U-160 about 40 miles east of Cape Hatteras, while she steamed in twenty-foot seas on a nonevasive course at 14 knots. The torpedo struck the #3 hold just below the bridge on the port side at the waterline. The armed guards fired twelve shots with the 4in gun on the poop (the ship was also armed with four .50cal and four .30cal guns) at the periscope of the U-boat. U-160 circled the stern at a distance of about 250 yards and fired off the starboard quarter a second torpedo that struck the starboard side at #4 hold, causing the ship to sink stern first after 20 minutes. The most of the 13 officers, 70 crewmen and 41 passengers abandoned ship in four lifeboats, the nine armed guards jumped off the ship as water reached the after deck. The next day, a PBY Catalina aircraft searched the area of the sinking but found no survivors. 36 hours after the attack, 70 survivors were picked up by the USS Roper (DD 147), but one of them died on board and 29 others by the tug USS Acushnet (ATO 63) and were taken to the Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia. On 11 April, a US Army bomber spotted the fourth boat at 38°40N/73°00W, it had contained 13 crew members, one armed guard and six passengers (four women, one man and a 3 year old girl), but five crew members, the armed guard, the man and two women died. The eleven survivors and two bodies (the mother of the child and the armed guard) were picked up by the US Coast Guard patrol boat USS CG-455 and were brought to Lewes, Delaware. In all, one armed guard, 16 crewmen and seven passengers died. The next ship of the master George T. Sullivan was the Daniel Morgan, which was sunk by German aircraft and U-88 after the dispersion of convoy PQ-17 on 5 Jul, 1942. | ||
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