Built by the Société Anonyme des Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence at Port-de-Bouc (F)

Length: 118.95 m Width: 15.29 m Draught: 6.99 m

Speed: 13 kt

Passengers: 124 in the cabin, 580 in steerage

Managed by The Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd in London in 1943 in 1946 returned to its owner