SS City of Bedford was a British cargo steamship. She was launched in 1924 in Sunderland for Hall Line Ltd of Liverpool, a member of the Ellerman Lines group. In December 1940 City of Bradford collided in fog the North Atlantic with another British cargo ship, . Both ships sank, and 48 of City of Bedford's crew were killed. She was the first of two Ellerman Lines ships to be called City of Bedford. The second was a steam turbine ship that Alexander Stephen and Sons launched in 1950 and Ellerman Lines sold in 1972.