sentences:  On her return to the Bass Strait run she was almost immediately again requisitioned this time by the Government of Australia again as a troopship.During her first trip to Port Moresby she carried 480 troops and supplies; on leaving Port Moresby she ran aground on a reef at the entrance where she remained for three days, helpless hard and fast aground.All attempts to refloat her using both engines and the assistance of navy vessels proved useless.