She was a merchant conversion, requisitioned by the Navy during the Second World War and returned after its end.

The Navy requisitioned her and she was launched on 1 October 1940 as the aircraft transport HMS Athene.

Athene received a single catapult, and operated as a seaplane carrier in the South Atlantic over 1942/43.

[1] In June 1943 Athene departed from San Diego bound for Pearl Harbor under escort by the Barnegat Class seaplane tender USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)[2] In 1946 the Navy returned her to Clan Line.

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