HMS LST 3519[1] was a Landing Ship, Tank of the Royal Navy, entering service during the last months of the Second World War.

[3] After the end of the war she was one of three LSTs chartered by the Government to the firm of F.Bustard & Sons Ltd., who employed the ships in his Atlantic Steam Navigation Company.

[3] The renamed Empire Baltic made the first voyage of the new company, sailing from Tilbury Docks to Rotterdam on 11 September 1946.

The journey took 24 hours[5] The ship spent the next decade conveying army vehicles and personnel across the English Channel.

[6] The outbreak of the Suez Crisis in 1956 led to her being requisitioned along with the other LSTs operating under Admiralty charter, and Empire Baltic was used to carry Centurion tanks to Alexandria.