Pickhuben was a cargo steamship that was built in 1923 by Union Giesserei, Königsberg for German owners.

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

Union Giesserei, in Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad in Russia), built the ship in 1923.

Her United Kingdom Official Number was 180666, and her cal sign was GNQQ.

[4] In 1946 Empire Condicote was allocated to the Norwegian Government, renamed Grimsnes, and registered in Oslo.