Japanese battleship Ise
On 12 April 1922, while at Yokohama, "Ise" hosted a delegation which included the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII), who was accompanied by his second cousin, the future Lord Mountbatten of Burma. Captain Kanna Norikazu relieved Nagasawa on 1 December. The ship aided survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake in September 1923. From the early 1920s through the late 1930s, "Ise" mostly cruised off the coast of China. Little detailed information is available about her activities during the 1920s, although she helped sink the obsolete destroyer during gunnery training on 10 August 1926. The ship was overhauled in 1928–1929, during which her forward superstructure was enlarged and her aviation facilities improved.
SS Île de France
Ironically, all of the ship's luxurious fittings were removed for conversion into a prison ship during World War II. After the war, "Île de France" resumed transatlantic operations. In 1956, she played a key role in rescuing passengers from the SS "Andrea Doria" after the latter ship's fatal collision with the MS "Stockholm" off Nantucket. Her last hurrah came just before she was scrapped in 1959, "starring" in the movie "The Last Voyage" as a doomed ocean liner, and actually being partially sunk, while scenes were being filmed with actors playing their parts in the flooded ship. She was subsequently refloated and taken to Japan to be scrapped. The movie was released in 1960.