Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin da yakin duniya na biyu ya barke "Athos II" har yanzu yana kan hanyar Gabas ta Tsakiya amma a ranar 1 ga Fabrairun 1940 a Colombo, Celyon ya shiga cikin motar Australiya / New Zealand, wanda aka sanya shi US1 don sirri da kuma jigilar kimanin sojoji 13,500 zuwa Arewacin Afirka, a karkashin jagorancin jagorancin. Bayan wucewa ta hanyar Suez Canal da kuma komawa Faransa "Athos II" ya fara Marseilles, Masar da Siriya sabis har zuwa 22 Yuni 1940 Jamus-Faransa armistice
lokacin da aka ajiye jirgin a Alexandria, Masar tare da sauran jiragen ruwan Faransa da aka kama a cikin Suez Canal da kuma ruwan Masar. Baya ga jiragen ruwa na kasuwanci akwai sojojin ruwan Faransa, Force X, a karkashin Admiral Rene-Emile Godfroy wanda ke aiki tare da rundunar sojojin Birtaniya daga Alexandria. Bayan faduwar Faransa tare da Jamusanci da ke sarrafa Faransa ta Vichy da ke sarrafa tashar jiragen ruwa na Faransa Faransawa sun fuskanci zaɓuɓɓuka na ci gaba tare da Allies a ƙarƙashin Janar de Gaulle, demilitarizing ko kuma turawa ta Birtaniya. Ayyukan Birtaniya a kan jirgin ruwan Faransa a Oran ya dakatar da demilitarization amma ya ci gaba bayan da aka ci gaba da tattaunawa tare da sakamakon rage yawan sojojin Faransa, kimanin mutane 4,000, zuwa kashi ɗaya bisa uku. Ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa na Faransa dubu biyu sun riga sun bar Alexandria lokacin da aka ba da izinin "Athos II" a ranar 13 ga Yuli 1940 tare da sauran ma'aikatan 1,000 na Force X da wasu ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa zuwa Faransa. A watan Satumbar 1940 ya dawo da sojojin Faransa daga Siriya sannan ya zama jirgin tsaro a Algiers har sai Allies suka kama shi a watan Nuwambar 1942 a lokacin Operation Torch.