 She immediately received a comprehensive overhaul and resumed her London to Africa service in 1949, which continued for the next nine years.The ship played a small part in the search for the coelacanth; the telegram from Captain Hunt to Dr JLB Smith noting the discovery of the second coelacanth in the Comoros reached him when the ship stopped in Durban on 24 December 1952.All of his scientific gear was deep in the hold of the ship.