the Allied invasion of Sicily. She was carrying a rear-admiral, 289 Canadian troops and two landing craft. That afternoon U-593 torpedoed and sank her northeast of Cape Bengut on the coast of Algeria, killing 52 of the personnel aboard. On 21 November 1943 the D-class motor ship Delius in the Western Approaches about southwest of Land's End when an enemy aircraft attacked her with a glide bomb. The bomb did not sink her but it killed her Master and three of her crew and wounded several other crewmen. Polish and Belgian passenger ships After the German and Soviet Invasion of Poland the UK Ministry of War Transport put three Gdynia–America Line passenger liners under Lamport and Holt management. The Pułaski, and motor ship became troop ships. They retained their Polish officers and crew but each carried a Lamport and Holt liaison officer. In 1946 the MoWT returned Batory to Poland, which by then was under Soviet occupation. But the crews of Pułaski and Kościuszko refused to be repatriated. The MoWT re-registered the ships in the UK as Empire Penryn and Empire Helford respectively, the Polish crews signed UK articles and the ships were sold to Lamport and Holt. In 1940 the MoWT put a pair of Compagnie Maritime Belge passenger liners under Lamport and Holt management. The sister ships and became troop ships. In 1947 they were renamed Empire Bure and Empire Test respectively. After the Second World War By the end of the war in 1945 Lamport and Holt owned nine cargo ships with a total tonnage of . On behalf of the MoWT it was managing several cargo ships and four passenger ships. The company increased its fleet by buying Empire ships of various ages and sizes from the MoWT. The largest of these was the Empire Haig, which Lamport and Holt renamed Dryden. In 1947 the company bought one Liberty ship, the John J.McGraw, which it renamed Lassell. In the same year it chartered two Victory ships from the Panama Shipping Corporation. They were the Atlantic City Victory, which was renamed Vianna, and the El Reno Victory, which was renamed Vilar. Some ships were also transferred between Lamport and Holt and other Vestey Group subsidiaries, and renamed according to the naming policy of each company. This practice was to continue throughout Lamport and Holt's decades as a member of the Vestey Group. In 1946 the group took