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SS Morro Castle
SS Morro Castle was an American passenger liner completed in 1930 for the Ward Line's New York–Havana run, destroyed by fire off New Jersey in 1934.
SS Nieuw Amsterdam (1937)
SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a Dutch transatlantic ocean liner launched in 1937 as the Holland America Line flagship, celebrated for her Dutch modern interiors and wartime troopship service.
SS Nomadic (1911)
SS Nomadic is a 1911 White Star Line passenger tender built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast to ferry first- and second-class passengers to liners at Cherbourg.
SS Normandie
SS Normandie was a French ocean liner of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique that entered service in 1935 as the largest, fastest liner afloat and won the Blue Riband.
SS Oceanic (1870)
The SS Oceanic was an iron-hulled ocean liner built for the White Star Line in 1870, the first of four Oceanic-class ships serving Liverpool to New York.
SS Pendleton
The SS Pendleton was an American T2 tanker that broke in two off Cape Cod in a February 1952 nor'easter, with 32 of 33 stern crew rescued.
SS Richard Montgomery
The SS Richard Montgomery was an American Liberty ship that ran aground in the Thames Estuary in 1944 while carrying munitions, about 1,400 tons of which remain aboard.
SS River Clyde
The SS River Clyde, also known as HMS River Clyde, was a British collier built in 1905 and converted in 1915 into a troop-landing ship for the Gallipoli invasion.
SS Shieldhall
SS Shieldhall is a British heritage steamship built in 1955 to carry sewage sludge down the River Clyde, preserved at Southampton since 1988 and run by volunteers.
SS Talune
SS Talune was a New Zealand passenger and cargo steamship that carried the 1918 influenza pandemic from Auckland to Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Nauru in November 1918.
SS Thistlegorm
SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship sunk by German bombers in the Red Sea on 6 October 1941; her wreck is a famous Red Sea dive site.
SS Torrey Canyon
The SS Torrey Canyon was a Liberian-registered supertanker that ran aground on the Seven Stones reef off Land's End, England, in 1967, causing the world's first major oil spill.
SS United States
The SS United States is a retired American ocean liner, the largest built in the United States, which has held the transatlantic speed record since 1952.
SS Yongala
SS Yongala was an Australian coastal passenger steamship built in 1903, lost with all 122 aboard in a cyclone off North Queensland in 1911, found in 1958.
SS-Ehrenring
SS-Ehrenring (Totenkopfring), the SS death's head honor ring: a personal silver award of Heinrich Himmler, designed by Karl Maria Wiligut, made by Otto Gahr of Munich, about 14,500 awarded 1934-1944, returned to Wewelsburg on death or discharge.
SS-GB
SS-GB, Len Deighton's 1978 alternate history novel, imagines a Nazi-occupied Britain in November 1941, where Scotland Yard detective Douglas Archer investigates a physicist's murder under SS rule; adapted by the BBC in 2017.
SS-GB (TV series)
SS-GB is a 2017 BBC One five-part miniseries adapted from Len Deighton's 1978 alternate-history novel, directed by Philipp Kadelbach, starring Sam Riley as detective Douglas Archer in a Nazi-occupied 1941 Britain. Distinguishing facts: Berlinale 2017 premiere, Bond writers Purvis and Wade, 89% Tomatometer.
SS-HCC trial
SS-HCC (NCT00495846), a completed 2007-2008 Federico II University of Naples pilot phase 2/3 trial testing depot octreotide-LAR and lanreotide Autogel in 25 patients with advanced somatostatin receptor-expressing hepatocellular carcinoma; no results posted.
SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer
SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (Oberstgruf), highest SS general rank 1942–1945 below Reichsführer-SS, equivalent to Generaloberst; held only by Dietrich, Schwarz, Daluege, and Hausser.
SS-Totenkopfverbände
SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV, Death's-Head Units) were the SS formations that commanded, administered, and guarded Nazi concentration camps from 1936 to 1945, renamed from SS-Wachverbände in April 1936, source of the Waffen-SS Totenkopf Division, and declared criminal at Nuremberg.
SS. Marcellino e Pietro
SS. Marcellino e Pietro (Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano), a parish and titular church in Rome's rione Monti, rebuilt 1751 by Benedict XIV and Girolamo Theodoli, tied to the martyrs' catacombs ad Duas Lauros and Constantine's funerary basilica.
SS&C Technologies
SS&C Technologies, founded by Bill Stone in 1986 in Windsor, Connecticut, is an American financial software and services company serving over 23,000 clients and leading in hedge fund administration.
SS18
SS18 (formerly SYT, SSXT) is a human gene on 18q11.2 encoding a BAF/SWI-SNF chromatin remodeling subunit. Its fusion to SSX1/SSX2 via t(X;18) drives synovial sarcoma.
SS26 (song)
SS26 (Spring/Summer 2026) is Charli xcx's May 21, 2026 single and second track of Music, Fashion, Film; a stripped-back rock-era satire of fashion and doom, produced with A. G. Cook and Finn Keane.
SS501
SS501 (더블에스오공일), also known as Double S 501, is a South Korean boy band formed by DSP Media that debuted June 8, 2005 with five members including Kim Hyun-joong; active until 2010, it never officially disbanded and three members reunited as FIVE O ONE in 2025.
SSAB
SSAB (SSAB AB, originally Svenskt Stål AB) is a Swedish steel company formed by the government in 1978, headquartered in Stockholm, known for high-strength steels and its fossil-free steelmaking push.
SsangYong Korando (쌍용 코란도)
The SsangYong Korando, sold as the Daewoo Korando and now the KGM Korando, is a South Korean compact SUV produced since 1983, whose name contracts the motto "Korean Can Do".
SsangYong Rexton
The SsangYong Rexton, now the KGM Rexton, is a large seven-seat body-on-frame SUV built in South Korea since 2001 and marketed on towing capacity and off-road ability.
Ssaru
Ssaru, also known as Ssaru wa Manyaru, is a Kenyan rapper and singer born in 2002 who rose to prominence in gengetone and is widely called the Queen of Gengetone.
SSC Napoli
SSC Napoli, also called simply Napoli, is a Naples football club founded 25 August 1926, playing at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona; four Serie A titles, six Coppa Italia, one UEFA Cup, coached by Massimiliano Allegri.