She was seized by the British in May 1945, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Exe.

[1] Declared a prize of war,[4] she was passed to the MoWT and renamed Empire Exe.

[1] The United Kingdom Official Number 180637 and Code Letters GLTV were allocated.

In November 1967, she was laid up at Aden, South Yemen with boiler damage.

Nigma arrived under tow at Karachi, Pakistan in November 1969 for scrapping.