Chaksang was a 1,923 GRT Hansa A type cargo ship which was built in 1944 as Weserbrück by Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany for Norddeutscher Lloyd.

She was seized by the Allies in an incomplete state in 1945 and completed as Empire Fraser for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

[1] The ship was powered by a two-cylinder compound steam engine driving a single screw propeller.

[2][3] She was seized in 1945 in an incomplete state at Hamburg and was completed as Empire Fraser for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

She was operated under the management of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co Ltd.[1] In November 1946, Empire Fraser transported a cargo of raw silk from Tokyo, Japan to the United Kingdom.