She was seized by the Allies in May 1945 at Flensburg, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Connaught.

The Code Letters GKST and United Kingdom Official Number 180704 were allocated.

[4] In 1946, Empire Connaught was allocated to the Soviet Government and was renamed Nemirovich Danchenko.

[1] In winter 1947 the Soviet steamship Yakut was used in operations to tow the steamer Nemirovich Danchenko due to Nemirovich Danchenko already used mostly own coal during the voyage Panama - Kamchatka and lacked coal in Pacific Ocean to complete this voyage.

The steamship Nemirovich Danchenko was without cargo and alongside the berth number 3 in Nagayev port.

On 19 December the ship still was alongside in Nagayev port, when two Soviet steamships General Vatutin; ex.