SS "Narwik, formerly Empire Roamer", was a Polish general cargo ship built in 1941 to the order of the British government, as one of the Empire type ships. In 1942, together with four others ("Tobruk", "Bałtyk," "Białystok", "Borysław" - since 1950 "Bytom"), it was transferred to the Polish Government in Exile for the Polish Merchant Navy. In Polish service, the name of the ship was changed to "Narwik" to commemorate the Polish contribution to the Battle of Narvik. The transferred ships formally became the property of GAL (Gdynia-America Shipping Lines SA), but in practice they were at the disposal of the War Transport Administration. Under the Polish flag "Narwik" sailed until 1972.