 On 3 March 1950 the ship was transferred from P&O to the Home Lines-affiliated Compania de Navegacion Incres SA (Incres Shipping Company) of Panama for £95,000.She was renamed SS "Europa", converted to take 614 tourist class passengers, was stripped of her refrigerated cargo space, and placed into service transporting stateless immigrants from Europe to the United States and Canada.She was Italian-crewed, and first sailed from Genoa; later crossings began from Antwerp and later Le Havre.