Exhaustive account of the third-worst Allied shipping disaster in the Second World War, the SS Khedive Ismail (built by Scott at Greenock in 1922 originally as the SS Aconcagua ), was in a troop-carrying convoy in the Indian Ocean when she was sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1944. The disaster was also the worst in the entire history of the British Empire and Commonwealth concerning the loss of women personnel. The book contains several appendices, including one with the names of all known personnel, lost and saved.