page_title: Counties Ship Management
section_title: Post-war development
hierarchical_section_title: Counties Ship Management / Post-war development
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of SS Empire Celia. Note the 4" gun
context_page_description: Counties Ship Management Co. Ltd. was an ocean-going merchant shipping company based in the United Kingdom. During the Second World War CSM merchant ships made a substantial contribution to supplying the British war effort, at a cost of 13 ships lost and 163 officers and men killed.
context_section_description: 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 Empire Celia under CSM management. In 1948 the MoWT sold her to Putney Hill Steamships who renamed her SS Putney Hill after MV Putney Hill 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.
  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.
caption: SS Putney Hill (Formerly SS Empire Celia) in 1948
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