During the war, "Maine" acted as Base Hospital Ship at Alexandria in Egypt and treated a total of 13,514 patients, despite being damaged during air raids on the port. She also participated in the evacuation of Crete, the Siege of Tobruk and the Allied invasion of Sicily. She was the oldest hospital ship from any nation during the conflict. Following the end of the war, she assisted casualties from the Greek Civil War and the Corfu Channel incident. "Maine" was decommissioned on 21 February 1947, and was broken up by P &amp; W McClellan &amp; Sons in Bo'ness, Scotland, in July 1948.