[1] Columbie was laid down, launched and commissioned in 1931 for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (French Line).

In December 1942, Colombie was taken over by US Army at Casablanca, Morocco and sent to New York to be converted to a troopship during 1943 by Arthur Tickle Engineering Company.

USAHS Aleda E. Lutz was decommissioned on 6 April 1946 and transferred to the War Shipping Administration but five days later returned to French Line.

Colombie was modernized and returned to commercial service on the Havre-West Indies route.

Later, following 1966 loss of the ferry Heraklion and the convictions for manslaughter, negligence, and document falsification, Typaldos Lines was declared bankrupt and Atlantica was abandoned, then sold for scrapping in 1974.