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(WW2D) World War II - return
from the Middle East

D. Ships which made independent voyages
with Australian troops returning from
Egypt to India or Australia, or from
Colombo to Australia as part of
Operation Stepsister (the return of
                6th & 7th Divisions AIF from the Middle
  East)

                Andes                                                   See WW2A above

   Photo from the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
                Clan Mactavish (Clan Line) - sln photo (stern view)
                    scs 7631gt 1921 Irvine Digital Order No.
                    1942 (Oct) torpedoed and a637006
sunk in the Indian Ocean,    nmm photo uw
61 dead 74 survivors (1937 at Beira)
No. P15734

                Duntroon See (WW2B) above

From a postcard in the author's collection
Felix Roussel (Messageries Photos in Arnold Kludas,
    Maritimes) -twscm 16774gt op. cit., Vol.3, p. 157
                    1930 Saint Nazaire (original 2 square funnela,
1940 (May) inbound for 1950 one oval funnel)
Marseilles, detained at Port
                    Said.
                    (July) taken over with her
                    French crew. Converted to
                    troopship.
1942 (Feb 4) in the final convoy
of four ships to escape from
                    Singapore. (Feb 5) attacked
by 25 Japanese aircraft. Shot
down two and twice hit by bombs.
Empress of Asia (Canadian
Pacific) was sunk.
                    1943-1945 trooped mainly to
Far East and India theatre
1946 handed back to French
Government
                    1950 resumed commercial
                    service Marseilles-Far East
1955 sold to Liberian interests
                  r/n Arosa Sun
                 1959 the Liberian firm went
bankrupt and ship owned by
a Swiss bank
                    1960 bought byDutch firm and
converted into an accommodation
ship
                     1974 scrapped

                Ile de France                                            Sse (WW2A) above

                Mauretania                                            See (WW2A) above

Photo from NavSource Online:Service Ship Photo Archive
                Mount Vernon (ex Washington) awm photo (Apr., 1943,
                    twscs 24289gt 1933 Camden NJ aerial port side view)
(Built for United States Line ID No.303655
                   and trans-Atlantic service)     NavSource Online: Service
1941 (Jun) acqired by US Navy Ship Photo Archive, 2
r/n Mount Vernon (AP-22) photos as troop transport
                    1946 decommissioned and handed and 2 postcard images of
                    to the US Maritme Commission of ship pre-war
r/n Washington (http://www.navsource.org/
                    1948 chartered by United States archives/09/22/22022.htm)
                    Line re-entered New York - nmm photo aq (1942-1945,
Hamburg service at Liverpool Landing Stage)
                    1951 handed back to US No. P23517
Maritime Commission, laid up
                    1964 sold for scrap

                Nieuw Amsterdam    See (WW2A) above

                Orontes                                                  See Orient Line (OR2)

                Otranto                                                   See Orient Line (OR2)

                Strathallan                                         See P&O (PO3)

   From a postcard in the author's collection
                Westernland (ex Regina)    nmm photo am (1934
                    (Holland America Line) - Southampton Water)
                    trpscs 16231gt 1918 Glasgow No. P18169
                    1918 built for the Dominion Line
                    completed as troopship
                    1920-1922 completed to
                    original design
                    1923 White Star-Dominion Line
  service Liverpool-Quebec-Montreal
                    1929 transferred to Red Star Line
  Antwerp-Southampton-New York
service
                    1930 r/n Westernland
                    1939 sold to Holland-America Line
               same name same route
                    1940 after invasion of Holland
                    escaped to England and became the
HQ ship for exiled Dutch Government
                    (Jul) troopship
                    1943 destroyer depot ship
                    1946 sold for conversion to Whale
factory ship but plan abandoned
                    1947 sold for scrapping

                Willard A Holbrook                                See (WW2B) above

  Photo from NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive
                USS West Point ex America Photos as completed, as
                    (US Navy Transport, AP-23 ) - US Navy troop transport,
                    twscs 26314gt 1940 Newport and as Australis witth
News, VA Chandris Line in Arnold
Completed as the flagship of Kludas' "Great Passenger
the United States Line Ships of the World", Vol. 4,
1941 chartered for US Navy use 1936-1950, pp. 84-85.
converted to AP-23 NavSource Online:Service
                    1942 (Sep) purchased by US Navy Ship Photo Archive,
                   r/n USS West Point 8 photos of service as a
1946 re-acquired by United States     Navy transport plus photos
                    Line r/n America   of her pre and post-war
                    1964 sold to Chandris Line    commercial service
r/n Australis. (See Chandris    (http://www.navsource.org/
Line (CH))   archives/09/22/22023.htm)
    nmm photo am (from U.S.
   Maritime Commission)
   No. P13834
nmm photo am (Jun-Jul.
1944, on the Clyde)
No. N38143

               Sources:
1. Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping
2. NavSource Photo Archives - Photographic History of the U.S. Navy
http://www.navsource.org/archives/
3. U.S. Naval Historical Centre website "Ships of the United States Army"
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/
4 Duncan Haws "Merchant Fleets" volumes:
28. Holland America Line (TCL Publications, U.K. 1995)
                      36. Messageries Maritimes (TCL Publications, U.K. 1999)
  5. Peter Plowman's "Across the Sea to War"
      (Rosenberg, Dural, N.S.W. 2003)
      6. The Old Ship Picture Galleries
   http://www.photoship.co.uk/
   7. Roland W. Charles' "Troopships of World War II"
(The Army Transportation Association, Washington, D.C. 1947)
   8. Arnold Kludas' "Great Passenger Ships of the World, Vol. 4, 1936-1950"
(Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, English language editon 1977)

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