She was passed to the Ministry of War Transport and was renamed Empire Gatehouse.

[3] The Code Letters GSPL and United Kingdom Official Number 180737 were allocated.

Her port of registry was London and she was operated under the management of Brown, Atkinson & Co. Ltd.,[1] Hull.

[2] In 1964, Gulfport was sold to the Alma Shipping Co., Liberia and was renamed Stefani.

She ran aground in the Gulf of Suez in December 1970 and was refloated on 1 January 1971.

Arrested at Massawa, Ethiopia in 1974, she was sold by Court Order in 1977 to A W & Y F Obeid.