Empire City was a 7,295 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1943 by William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

The Code Letters BFLB and the United Kingdom Official Number 180046 were allocated.

[4] Empire City was a member of Convoy DKA 21, which departed Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa bound for Port Said, Egypt via Aden.

On 6 August 1944, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-198 off Mocímboa da Praia, Portuguese East Africa (11°33′S 41°25′E / 11.550°S 41.417°E / -11.550; 41.417).

[6] Those lost on Empire City are commemorated at the Tower Hill Memorial, London.