No.363 Conte Verde launched in 1922

18,765 Lloyd Sabaudo from Beardmore, Glasgow

After acquisition by Italian Line in 1932, she became a part of Lloyd Triestino

Scuttled by crew in Shanghai 1943, raised, bombed Maizuru Japan 1944 and finally scrapped in 1949.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Conte_Verde

Image from Yoshiaki Nishimura.
In May 1942, Japan and the US agreed to exchange interned diplomats and other citizens, chartering the Conte Verde (known as Teikyo Maru while chartered). The Conte Verde left Yokohama on September and returned to Shanghai.

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