MV Seaforth was an Elder Dempster Lines cargo motor ship that traded between Liverpool and West Africa.

Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company built Seaforth at its Stannergate yard in Dundee, launching her on 22 November 1938[1] and completing her in February 1939.

William Doxford & Sons of Sunderland made her engine, which was a four-cylinder, single-acting two-stroke diesel rated at 598 NHP[2] or 3,100 bhp.

They differed from Seaforth by having six-cylinder MAN diesel engines that Scotts built under licence.

[6] Her ports of call included Douala in Cameroon in October 1939[7] and Funchal in Madeira in February 1940.