her under CSM management. She was damaged in an air raid on Convoy OA 178 on 4 July 1940 but survived and remained in service until after the surrender of Germany. She was destroyed by fire on 7 August 1945 just a week before the surrender of Japan. By the end of hostilities CSM had lost 13 ships totalling 81,111 tons, with the deaths of 163 officers and men. Post-war development In 1946 a CSM company bought Empire Nairobi, a standard Empire ship that had been built by Short Brothers in February 1945. CSM renamed her Dover Hill, after the earlier ship that had survived an unexploded bomb and then been scuttled in the Normandy landings. CSM sold her in 1951 to new owners who renamed her Basil. She changed owners and names several more times before being scrapped in Istanbul in 1968. Also in 1946 the MoWT placed the Empire Ship under CSM management. In 1948 the MoWT sold her to Putney Hill Steamships who renamed her SS Putney Hill after that was sunk in 1942. In 1947 Dorset Steamships acquired the Empire ship Empire Mandarin, which the Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd. in Newcastle-upon-Tyne had completed in 1942. Dorset Steamships renamed her Lulworth Hill, replacing an earlier ship of the same name. Also in 1947, Akri Steamships bought Westmoor from Moor Line and renamed her Akri Hill. In about 1947–48 CSM companies bought seven Liberty ships from the UK Government. None remained under CSM control for very long. In 1948 seven oil tankers joined the fleet. Cardium, a 1931-built 8,300 ton motor tanker bought from Anglo-Saxon Petroleum, was renamed Hawthorn Hill but the other six tankers were not renamed. In 1950 the CSM fleet was radically expanded with 34 Canadian "Fort and Park" ships. London & Overseas Freighters In 1948 the cousins founded a new company, London & Overseas Freighters Ltd. They intended it to be a tanker company but in 1949–50 it took over ten dry cargo ships from three R&K companies: Dorset Steamship Co Ltd, Putney Hill Steamships Co Ltd and Tower Steamship Co Ltd. In order to give the merged fleets a single "house" identity, in 1950 LOF renamed all of its ships, giving each one a name beginning with "London". Dorset Steamships' freighter Lulworth Hill (II) became London Builder. Richmond Hill (II), built in 1940 by Bartram & Sons in Sunderland for Putney Hill Steamships became