SS Empire Bunting was a 6,318 ton cargo ship which was built in 1919. She saw service in the interwar period under the American flag, but was transferred to the British Ministry of War Transport during the Second World War. She made a number of cross-Atlantic voyages, often sailing in convoys. She ended her career by being sunk as a blockship on the Normandy coast, supporting the allied landings there in 1944.