HMS Crispin was a British cargo steamship that was launched in England in 1934 and operated by Alfred Booth and Company between Liverpool and the east coast of South America.

Booth Line responded by renewing its fleet, selling 11 older ships and replacing them with a smaller number of new ones.

[6] For the first 12 months of the Second World War Crispin continued her usual trade between Liverpool and various ports in Brazil.

[8] For her homeward voyages to Liverpool Crispin usually went via the east coast of the US and Halifax, Nova Scotia, calling at New York and sometimes other ports, and then joining an HX convoy for her eastbound transatlantic crossing.

[8] In August 1940 the Admiralty requisitioned Crispin, and she sailed from Liverpool around the north of Scotland to Middlesbrough to be converted into an ocean boarding vessel.

Crispin headed for home along with the corvette HMS Arbutus, armed yacht Philante and rescue ship Copeland.

[10] The Republic of Ireland's National Monuments Service records Crispin as wreck number W09568, 450 nautical miles (830 km) west-northwest of Tory Island, County Donegal.