| Name: | EMPIRE STANDARD |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 29/06/1942 |
| Completed: | 10/1942 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co (Shipbuilders) Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 1 |
| Dimensions: | 7047grt, 4940nrt, 430.9 x 56.2 x 35.2ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (24.5, 39 & 70 x 48ins), 510nhp |
| Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co (1938) Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 165846 |
| History: | |
| 23/10/1942 | Ministry of War Transport (J Robinson & Sons), Newcastle |
| 03/1943 | Sank |
| Comments: | A standard ‘B’ type cargo ship |
| 09/03/1943: Torpedoed by U-Boat U596 off Algiers when inward from Newport | |
| Managed to reach port and discharge her cargo | |
| 26/03/1943: Further damaged by bombing by German air force at Algiers | |
| Her back was broken so she was towed to sea and scuttled |