Taken over by the Admiralty and completed as a Landing Ship Gantry carrying 15 LCMs with accommodation for 150 military personnel. Took part in the North African, Italian, and Far East landings. In August 1943, Captain S.T. Dunster was awarded the OBE. The citation read: In December 1945 she was damaged by a mine at Port Swettenham and returned to UK for repair. After the war she resumed freighting duties as a tanker. Ennerdale was sold to the British Iron & Steel Corporation for scrapping and broken up 1959-60.