USS Jean (ID-1308) - Later Career, 1919-1954

Later Career, 1919-1954

Jean returned to commercial service as SS Jean. She was renamed SS Margarita Calafati in 1926, SS Gladstone in 1927, and, under the Latvian flag, SS Sports in 1928. Sports came under Soviet control when the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in June 1940, and was nationalized and assigned to the Soviet Union's Latvian State Sea Shipping Company on 29 October 1940.

Sports was in port at Danzig, Germany, on 22 June 1941, the day that Germany declared war on the Soviet Union. Germany seized her that day and placed her under the German flag as SS Magdalena. After the end of World War II, Magdalena was transferred to the United Kingdom as a war reparation. Once again named SS Sports in 1947, the ship later was transferred to the Panamanian flag and remained in commercial service until scrapped in 1954.