Port of Shanghai
In the Second World War the British government requisitioned "Shuntien" and converted her into a Defensively-Equipped Merchant Ship (DEMS). Photographs of "Shuntien" taken about that time by a US photographer, Harrison Forman, show "Shuntien" in the Port of Shanghai apparently being converted into a prison ship. "Shuntien" moved to the Mediterranean, where her British officers supplemented her Chinese crew with Arab and Maltese recruits.