| Name: | EMPIRE ASQUITH |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 04/09/1944 |
| Completed: | 11/1944 |
| Builder: | Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 9 |
| Dimensions: | 7082grt, 4770nrt, 430.9 x 56.2 x 35.2ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (24.5, 37 & 70 x 48ins), 542mn |
| Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co (1938) Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 169187 |
| History: | |
| 11/1944 | Ministry of War Transport (R Chapman & Son), Newcastle |
| 1947 | Brockley Hill SS Co Ltd (Counties Ship Management Co Ltd), Newcastle |
| 1947 | Renamed BROCKLEY HILL |
| 1951 | Crest Shipping Co Ltd, London; renamed STARCREST |
| 1956 | Codemar Cia de Empresas Maritimas SA, Monrovia; renamed ARGOSY |
| 1959 | Ipar Transport Co Ltd, Istanbul; renamed NAZIHI IPAR |
| 09/1970 | Broken up |
| Comments: | A standard ‘B’ type cargo ship |
| 09/1970: Broken up at Halic, Istanbul by Ilhami Soher-Balat |
Photo as BROCKLEY HILL copyright of A Duncan
Photo as STARCREST courtesy of Photoship