Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - "Bergensfjord" ya fara tafiya ta ƙarshe daga Bergen zuwa New York a ranar 7 ga Afrilu, 1940, kwana biyu kafin mamayewar Jamus ta Norway. Lokacin da ya isa New York a ranar 15 ga Afrilu 1940 an kwantar da shi. Ma'aikatar Sufurin Yakin Burtaniya ta karbe ta a watan Nuwamba na 1940 kuma ta canza ta zuwa jirgin ruwa na sojoji a cikin watanni masu zuwa. An canza shi zuwa jirgin soji a Liverpool, kuma jirgin ya bar Liverpool, ta hanyar Glasgow, tare da sojojin farko a watan Fabrairun 1941, suna zuwa Durban (ta hanyar Freetown). A karshen yakin "Bergensfjord" ya kwashe kimanin sojoji 165,000, suka yi tafiya kuma suka shafe kwanaki 919 a teku. Ta kuma dauki dubban fursunonin yaki na Axis, da kuma shiga cikin sake dawo da fursunonin yaki na Allied. A matsayin jirgin ruwa ya shiga cikin mamayewar Allied
na Faransa Arewacin Afirka a 1942 da kuma mamaye Sicily a 1943. A lokacin aikin karshe ta ceto wadanda suka tsira daga jirgin asibitin da ya nutse.