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John sailed from New York to Greenock, Glasgow on the troop ship
SS Île de France. She was the last ship to leave France before the outbreak of war, departing from
La Havre on the morning of September 3 1939, just hours before France and the United
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Kingdom declared war on Germany. Seized by the British Admiralty in 1940 and used
as a troop ship. In 1941 she returned to New York and made several crossings from the northeast
coast of the USA as a troop ship and sailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Greenock, Scotland. In
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1959 the ship was sold to a Japanese breaker and departed Le Havre on February 16 of that
year to the breakers yard in Japan.