Nordmark was a 987 GRT Coaster that was built as Faust in 1920 by Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser AG, Bremen, Germany for German owners.

She was seized by the Allies at Lübeck in May 1945, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Congerstone.

The ship was built in 1920 as yard number 151 by Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser AG, Bremen.

[2] On 17 November 1931, Nordmark was in collision with the Union-Castle Line's Llandaff Castle in the River Thames.

[5] In 1936, Nordmark was one of 20 ships chartered to transport timber from Leningrad, Soviet Union to Germany.

The Code Letters GMRD and United Kingdom Official Number 180665 were allocated.