MV E Evangelia

MV E Evangelia is a shipwrecked 7,355-gross register ton (GRT) refrigerated cargo ship at Costinești on the Black Sea coast of Romania.

Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard built the ship for the UK Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

After passing through the Panama Canal between 18 and 20 February the ship crossed the Pacific Ocean independently, reaching Sydney on 20 March.

[2] Empire Strength spent the rest of 1944 shipping frozen meat from Buenos Aires to Britain and the Mediterranean.

For the first trip she was in Buenos Aires 17–25 April, called at Freetown, Sierra Leone 9–11 May and then spent a fortnight on convoys in the Mediterranean calling at Gibraltar, Algiers, Malta, Augusta and Taranto, and returning via Casablanca to Buenos Aires, where she was in port 3–22 August.

[2] In 1945 Empire Strength returned to Australia, sailing from Haifa via the Suez Canal, Port Sudan and Aden and reaching Fremantle on 13 February.

On 22 March she left New Plymouth for England, going via the Panama Canal, Charleston, New York and Convoy HX 354 to Liverpool and reaching London on 19 May.

[2] In 1946 the MoWT sold Empire Strength to the Blue Star-controlled company Frederick Leyland & Co Ltd, which renamed her Saxon Star.

Her back is broken, two large areas of plates are missing from her starboard side, and the entire ship's superstructure has collapsed.

E Evangelia 's wreck at Costinești