City of Bagdad


City of Bagdad was a British merchant ship that was captured then sunk by the German raider Atlantis on 11 July 1940. The crew were then kept prisoner for 107 days on the Atlantis before transferring to Durmitor. City of Bagdads Captain, J. Armstrong White, later became friendly with Atlantis's captain Bernhard Rogge and her adjutant Ulrich Mohr and wrote an account of her sinking in the foreword to Mohr's book Ship 16.
Originally ordered for the Hansa Line as Geierfels, the 7,490 gross register ton ship was launched on 8 November 1919 and completed in June 1920 before being turned over to the British as reparations after World War I.