SS Stockport was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1912.

[2] During the Second World War she served as a convoy rescue ship until a U-boat sank her in February 1943.

In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway, and in 1935 to the Associated Humber Lines.

On 11 August 1937 she was in collision with the Hull steam trawler Lady Beryl in the Humber off Immingham in thick fog.

She was attempting to regain the convoy when on 23 February U-604 torpedoed and sank her at (47°22′N 34°10′W / 47.367°N 34.167°W / 47.367; -34.167) with the loss of all her crew and the survivors that she had rescued from other vessels.