The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the
Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for two new steamers and launched on 20 March 1920.[2] She was launched by Lady Thornton
She was requisitioned during the
World War II as a
troopship. She took part in
Operation Cycle (the evacuation of Allied troops from Le Havre) and bombed and damaged on 11 June 1940 at
Le Havre by
Luftwaffe aircraft. She was
beached to prevent her from sinking.[4]
References
^Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.