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On Tuesday, 19 August 1941, she joined the search for survivors from the merchantman Alva which had been sunk by , and spent approximately an hour searching and picked up several survivors before putting on speed to catch up with the convoy. On returning to the convoy Captain F.E. Christian spotted starshells going up, on arrival he spotted a number of red lights in the water which he took to be the red lights attached to merchantmen's lifejackets (at this time Royal Navy lifejackets didn't). These were survivors from the merchantman Aguila, and after a long search Empire Oak picked up six crew members.