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{{short description|French merchant ship later converted hospital ship}}

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{{Use British English|date=October 2020}}

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| Ship caption = SS ''Colombie'' as a merchant ship in 1930s.
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| Ship complement = *491 passengers
*828 patients
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'''SS ''Colombie''''' was a French [[merchant ship]] and later converted to a [[hospital ship]]. She was named after [[Colombia|Colombie]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Colombie - Shipping Today & Yesterday Magazine|url=https://www.shippingtandy.com/features/colombie/|access-date=2020-10-23|website=Shipping Today & Yesterday|date=14 November 2017 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Construction and career ==

She was laid down, launched and commissioned in 1931 for [[Compagnie Générale Transatlantique]]. She was built by [[Ateliers et Chantiers de France]], [[Dunkirk]]. 
[[File:Lt._Aleda_E._Lutz.jpg|left|thumb|Lieutenant Aleda E. Lutz]]
Throughout the 1930s she serve as a [[merchant ship]] until 1940 where she was converted to an [[armed merchant ship]] till 1941. In December 1942, SS ''Colombie'' was taken over by [[United States Army|US Army]] at [[Casablanca]], [[Morocco]]. SS ''Colombie'' set off to [[New York City|New York]] to be converted to a troopship in 1943 by Arthur Tickle Engineering Company. She was still under jurisdiction of [[War Shipping Administration]], with the [[Compagnie Générale Transatlantique|French Line]].

SS ''Columbie'' operated between the east coast of the [[United States]] and the [[Europe]]-[[Africa]]-[[Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II|Middle East theater]] of operations. Acquired by the [[Transportation Corps|US Army Transportation Service]] for conversion to a [[hospital ship]] by Arthur Tickle Engineering Company, between January and April 1945.

She was recommissioned as USAHS ''Aleda E. Lutz'' on 13 February 1945. Named after [[Aleda E. Lutz|Lt. Aleda E. Lutz]], she was most celebrated women war heroes during World War II. ''Lutz'' was the first American woman to die in combat during World War II and the highest decorated woman in the history of the U.S. military. USAHS ''Aleda E. Lutz'' moored pierside at [[Pearl Harbor]] from 21–34 November 1945.

She was decommissioned on 6 April 1946 and returned to the War Shipping Administration but few days later returned to the [[Compagnie Générale Transatlantique|French Lines]] on 11 April 1946. SS ''Colombie'' was modernized and returned to commercial service on the Havre-West Indies route for [[Compagnie Générale Transatlantique|Générale Transatlantique]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=W. Charles|first=Roland|title=Troopships of World War II|publisher=The Army Transportation Association|year=1947|isbn=|location=Washington D.C.|pages=}}</ref>

Her ownership was turned over to [[Typaldos Lines]] in 1964 and renamed SS ''Atlantica,'' but few years later not long after, ''Typaldos Lines'' were declared bankrupt due to manslaughter, negligence, and document falsification in 1968 and she was abandoned and sold for scrapping in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Army Ship Photo Index|url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/30/08/0802.htm|access-date=2020-10-23|website=www.navsource.org}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Hospital ship]]
* [[Compagnie Générale Transatlantique|French Line]]
* [[Aleda E. Lutz]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/30/08/0802.htm Navsource]

{{French Line ships}}

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