{|    |} ss empire rest was a british convoy rescue ship that served at the end of world war ii, originally laid down as the corvette . post-war she served as a transport ship until 1948, was sold in 1951, and scrapped in 1952. ==ship history== the ship was ordered from ferguson brothers of port glasgow on 9 december 1942 as a . she was launched on 19 june 1944 as rayleigh castle (k695), but further work was then cancelled, and she was eventually completed as a convoy rescue ship on 26 october 1944. under the ownership of the ministry of war transport, and managed by the ellerman city line, she sailed on eleven convoys between november 1944 and june 1945, but made no rescues. in november 1945 she sailed to kiel to repatriate royal n
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