| 1930 |
August 27th - Launched. |
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December 19th - Delivered as Kenya for the British India Steam Navigation Company. |
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| 1940 |
Left Bombay in convoy for Europe and Government service. |
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| 1941 |
July 23rd - Renamed HMS Hydra while serving for the Royal Navy. |
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| 1941 |
October - Converted into a Landing Ship. She was renamed HMS Keren due to there already being a cruiser named
Kenya. She carried 297 crew, 1,500 troops and was equipped with 24 landing craft. She had 1 6-inch, 1 3-inch and 12 20mm AA guns. |
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| 1942 |
May 5th - Was present at the Diego Suarez Madagascar landings. |
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December - Present at the North African landings. |
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| 1943 |
July - One of the assault ships at the Sicily invasion, Operation Husky. She was the Headquarter Ship for ‘Bark East’ Sector and carried the 231st Infantry Brigade. |
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| 1946 |
April 3rd - The British India Steam Navigation Company did not wish to reconvert the vessel after the War. She was purchased by the Admiralty for £475,000 who then sold her to the Ministry of Transport. |
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| 1948 |
August - Laid up at Holy Loch for sale. |
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| 1949 |
February - Broke adrift from her moorings in a gale went ashore. Later salvaged and repaired at her builders from which she emerged once again as Kenya. |
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May - Bought by the Alva Steamship Company but still laid up at Holy Loch. She was relocated to Falmouth and then to Antwerp. She was renamed Fairstone later that year. |
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| 1950 |
Renamed Kenya. |
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October - Left in tow for Falmouth. |
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| 1951 |
March - Left Falmouth, bound for Antwerp under her new name Keren. She was transferred to the associated Sitmar Line (Soc Italiana Transporti Marittimi) and was towed to Genoa for a refit. |
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| 1952 |
Renamed Castel Felice. Re-measured. Now 12,478 grt, 7,373 nrt, 5,210 tons. Her passenger capacity now 1,400. |
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October 6th - Placed on the Genoa/Sydney and Genoa/South America service. |
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| 1954 |
July 13th - First sailing from Bremerhaven/Quebec. |
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| 1955 |
January 28th - Her passenger accommodation was refurbished at Genoa and the capacity was altered to 1,173 tourist class. |
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| 1958 |
April 6th - Made her first voyage Southampton/Sydney. |
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| 1960 |
March - Suffered damage to one of her propellers by touching the bank of the Suez Canal but at a reduced speed she was able to complete the voyage to Melbourne where repairs were carried out. |
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| 1961 |
Withdrawn for refit. Now 1,400 tourist class passengers. |
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| 1968 |
Ownership transferred to a newly-created subsidiary company named Passenger Line Service Inc. |
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| 1970 |
August 15th - Suffered a fire over three decks while she was berthed at Southampton. |
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October 21st - Arrived at Kaohsiung and broken up after 40 years of service.
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