SS Khedive Ismail was a steamship sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1944 with great loss of life. The 7,513 ton ship had been launched as Aconcagua by Scotts of Greenock in 1922. When the Aconcagua passed into Egyptian ownership in 1935 she was renamed after Isma'il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt from 1863 until 1879. In 1940 Khedive Ismail was requisitioned as a British troopship by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).