Silvered vesta with enamelled crest WWI for the ASCANIUS This ship commenced her maiden voyage on 30th December from Glasgow to Brisbane. In 1914 she served as a troopship with the Australian Expeditionary Force and in 1917 she was taken over under the Liner Requisition Scheme and continued trooping but also sailing as ordered. She resumed her commercial activities on the Australian service on 21st August 1920. In 1940 she was again requisitioned for use as a troopship. On 30th July 1944 she was torpedoed but managed to limp into Liverpool where she was repaired by Cammell Laird. After the war she was used to transport Jewish emigrants from Marseilles to Haifa. In 1949 she was sold to Cia. de Nav. Florencia, of Genoa and renamed San Giovanni. It was the company�s intention to carry emigrants from Italy to Australia, but she was laid up before the service commenced and was eventually broken up at La Spezia in March 1952.