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SS El Faro
SS El Faro, also known as SS Puerto Rico, was a US container ship that sank in Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas in 2015, killing all 33 aboard.
SS Exodus 1947
The SS Exodus 1947, originally the SS President Warfield, was an American passenger ship that carried 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivors to Palestine in defiance of British restrictions.
SS Great Britain
The SS Great Britain is an iron steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, launched in Bristol in 1843 and preserved there as a museum ship.
SS Great Eastern
The SS Great Eastern was an iron steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the largest ship in the world when launched in 1858, and she laid the first durable transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866.
SS Imperator
SS Imperator, later the Cunard liner Berengaria, was a German ocean liner built in 1913, when her more than 52,000 gross tons made her the world's largest passenger ship.
SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
The SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was a German express steamship built in 1897 for Norddeutscher Lloyd, the first liner with four funnels and holder of the Blue Riband.
SS Kassandra Louloudis
SS Kassandra Louloudis, or Kassandra Louloudis, was a Greek steam freighter sunk by the German submarine U-124 off Cape Hatteras in March 1942; all 35 crew were rescued.
SS Koombana
SS Koombana was an Australian coastal passenger steamship built in Glasgow in 1908, lost with about 157 aboard in a tropical cyclone off Western Australia in March 1912.
SS Lazio
SS Lazio (Società Sportiva Lazio), founded in Rome on 9 January 1900 as Società Podistica Lazio by Luigi Bigiarelli, is a Roman multi-sports club and Serie A football team; two Italian titles (1974, 2000), Cup Winners' Cup 1999, plays at the Stadio Olimpico.
SS Meredith Victory
The SS Meredith Victory was a United States cargo ship that evacuated more than 14,000 Korean refugees from Hungnam, North Korea, in December 1950 during the Korean War.
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.