Empire Dabchick was a 5,995 GRT Design 1019 cargo ship that was built in 1919 as Kisnop by Atlantic Corporation, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States for the United States Shipping Board (USSB).

In 1940 she was transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Dabchick.

She was renamed Empire Dabchick and placed under the management of Sir W Reardon Smith & Sons.

[7] The United Kingdom Official Number 168184 and Code Letters GNSN were allocated.

[4] Later that year, management was transferred to J Morrison & Son, Newcastle upon Tyne.

[13] She then joined Convoy SC 47, which departed on 29 September and arrived at Liverpool on 20 October.

[13] She then joined Convoy SC 66, which departed on 23 January and arrived at Liverpool on 9 February.

[21] She left the convoy at the Cape Cod Canal on 28 March and sailed to New York, arriving on 1 April.

[22] Empire Dabchick was a member of Convoy ON 98, which departed from Liverpool on 26 May and arrived at Halifax on 11 June.

[23] She then joined Convoy SC 98, which departed that day and arrived at Liverpool on 13 September.

[27] At 09:49 (German time) on 3 December 1942, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-183 some 200 nautical miles (370 km) south east of Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada (43°00′N 58°17′W / 43.000°N 58.283°W / 43.000; -58.283) with the loss of all 36 crew and eleven DEMS gunners.

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