| Name: | EMPIRE STEVENSON |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 25/08/1941 |
| Completed: | 11/1941 |
| Builder: | J Readhead & Sons Ltd |
| Yard: | South Shields |
| Yard Number: | 524 |
| Dimensions: | 6209grt, 4222nrt, 405.8 x 53.5 x 33.3ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (24, 40 & 68 x 45ins), 415nhp |
| Engines by: | J Readhead & Sons Ltd, South Shields |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 168651 |
| History: | |
| 21/10/1941 | Ministry of War Transport (William Brown, Atkinson, managers), South Shields |
| 13/09/1942 | Sank |
| Comments: | 13/09/1942: Torpedoed by German aircraft & blew up north of Bear Island |
| On a voyage in convoy PQ18 from Loch Ewe to Murmansk with a cargo of war materiel | |
| All 59 crew were killed |
Above photo, dated 22/10/1941, is copyright of South Tyneside Libraries