At Valletta with the impressive presence of USS ALBANY (completed 1946)


1942, 274grt
Cochrane & Sons, Selby (1255) as EMPIRE ACE
Allocated to Malta from 5/1946
Renamed DILIGENT in 8/1947 and spark-arrester fitted to funne
Returned to U.K. 1960, reverted to EMPIRE ACE in 1961
Ran aground on the Mull of Kintyre on 11/11/1968, refloated but broken up at Campbeltown