SS Empire Comfort was a 1,333 GRT convoy rescue ship which was launched in 1944 as HMS York Castle a Castle-class corvette, but was renamed Empire Castle and converted for merchant service before completion by Ferguson Brothers (Port Glasgow) Ltd., Port Glasgow as yard number 372.

[1] The ship was completed in December 1944 as Empire Comet for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

[5] Convoy MKS 88G departed from Casablanca, Morocco on 11 March 1945 bound for the United Kingdom.

[4] In 1948, Empire Comfort was in the Mediterranean where she was working under the control of the Middle East Command.

It was intended that she would be converted for service in the Belgian Congo, but she was scrapped in December 1955 at Ghent.