SS Isle of Jerseywas built in 1929 by Denny & Bros, Dumbarton, for the Southern Railway Company for the Southampton to Channel Islands ferry service, and delivered in January 1930 Withdrawn from service end March 1959.

She served as a Hospital Ship in Northern Waters during WWII, based at Scapa Flow. She arrived off Sword Beach on the 8th June 1944, leaving on the 9th June, thus playing her part in the D-Day Normandy operations.

Sold to Mohammed Senussi Giabor for pilgrim service under the Libyan flag 2nd May 1960 and renamed "Libda", a service she was never to enter. After lay-up in Tripoli she was eventually sold to be scrapped in La Spezia early in 1963.

The Southern Railway Company was created in 1923 by the merger of the London & South Western Railway, the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway and the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Companies. The Southern Railway took over all the fleets and routes of these companies.