SS Île de France

History
Name	SS Île de France
Builder/Built	1926 Saint-Nazaire
Type	Ocean Liner
Displacement	44,356 tons
Speed	23 .5 knots

Remarks

Built for the "French Line" or CGT. The first liner ever to be decorated almost entirely with modern designs associated with the Art Deco style

Ironically, all of the ship's luxurious fittings were removed for its conversion into a prison ship during World War II. After the war, Île de France resumed transatlantic operations. In 1956, she played a key role in rescuing passengers from the SS Andrea Doria after the latter ship's fatal collision with the MS Stockholm off Nantucket. Scrapped in Osaka, Japan, 1959.

Soldiers carried

Kantara Egypt to Bombay, India 30 January - 6 Feb 1942

Disembarked at Bombay & transferred to SS Kosciusko or SS Madras City to Adelaide

• Eric Anderson SS Madras City
• Clarence Malarkey
• Francis Malarkey
• Len Malarkey

Disembarked from SS Kociusko in Fremantle and went AWOL

• David Edward Kitchener Granberg
• Victor Charles Lowe