Empire Cabot was a 6,715 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1941 for the British Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

She was owned by the MoWT and operated under the management of Glen & Co Ltd.[3] Empire Cabot was a member of a number of convoys during the Second World War.

[6] In 1942, management was transferred to Sir R Ropner & Co Ltd.[7] Convoy ON 79 departed Reykjavík, Iceland on 22 March 1942.

[6] Convoy OG.89 On 28 August 1942 Empire Cabot loaded 28 Spitfire Vb|Spitfire Vc aircraft and 24 Hurricanes for Gibraltar arriving 19 September.

31 (or 32) of these aircraft were transferred to HMS Furious at Gibraltar and 29 flown off to Malta on 29 October as part of Operation Train.

Convoy SC 125 departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia on 31 March 1943 and arrived at Liverpool on 15 April.

She was operated under the management of Robert M Sloman Jr and was scrapped later that year in Hong Kong.