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Srikanth Singamaneni

Srikanth Singamaneni is a materials scientist at Washington University in St. Louis who leads the Soft Nanomaterials Laboratory and developed ultrabright plasmonic-fluor fluorescent labels for diagnostics.

SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines, formerly Air Lanka, is the state-owned flag carrier of Sri Lanka, operating an all-Airbus fleet from its hub in Colombo since its launch in 1979.

Srinivasa 'Hal' Iyengar

Srinivasa Iyengar, known professionally as Hal Iyengar, was an Indian American structural engineer who spent 32 years at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, engineering the John Hancock Center, Sears Tower, and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Srisailam Dam

Srisailam Dam, officially the Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy Srisailam Project, is a gravity dam on the Krishna River on the Telangana–Andhra Pradesh border, completed in 1984 and home to India's second largest working hydroelectric station.

Sriwijaya Air

Sriwijaya Air is an Indonesian airline based in Jakarta, founded in 2002 by the Lie family, which became Indonesia's third-largest airline group by serving neglected secondary routes with Boeing 737s.

Sriwijaya Air Flight 182

Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 was an Indonesian domestic flight from Jakarta to Pontianak that crashed into the Java Sea in January 2021, killing all 62 aboard.

SRTO-Surgut-Omsk Gas Pipeline

The SRTO-Surgut-Omsk gas pipeline is an operating main natural gas pipeline in Russia, running from northern Tyumen Oblast through Surgut to Omsk Oblast; it entered service in 1989.

SRTO-Ural Gas Pipeline

The SRTO-Ural gas pipeline carries natural gas from northern Tyumen Oblast in Western Siberia to Russia's industrial Urals region, first delivering large-scale Siberian gas there in 1974.

SRTP

SRTP (Secure Real-time Transport Protocol) is an IETF security profile of RTP that adds encryption, authentication, and replay protection to audio and video media streams.

SRV record

An SRV record, or Service Location record, is a DNS resource record, defined in RFC 2782, that gives the host name and port where a domain offers a service.

SS America (1939)

SS America, later USS West Point and Australis, was a United States Lines ocean liner launched in 1939 and wrecked in the Canary Islands in 1994.

SS Andrea Doria

The SS Andrea Doria was an Italian Line passenger liner that sank off Nantucket on 26 July 1956, a day after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm.

SS Atlantic Conveyor

SS Atlantic Conveyor was a British Cunard container ship requisitioned for the 1982 Falklands War; Argentine Exocet missiles sank her with the loss of 12 men.

SS Atlantus

The SS Atlantus was an experimental concrete-hulled freighter built during World War I, launched in 1918 and stranded off Sunset Beach at Cape May, New Jersey in 1926.

SS Ayrfield

SS Ayrfield is a shipwreck in Homebush Bay on the Parramatta River in Sydney, Australia, a half-submerged steam collier overgrown with gray mangroves since the 1970s.

SS Californian

The SS Californian was a British Leyland Line steamship that saw the Titanic's distress rockets on the night of 14 April 1912 and took no action.

SS Central America

The SS Central America, known as the "Ship of Gold," was an American steamship that sank in a hurricane off the Carolinas in 1857 while carrying California gold.

SS Cotopaxi

SS Cotopaxi was an American cargo steamship, built in 1918, that vanished with all 32 crew on a coal voyage from Charleston to Havana in December 1925.

SS Cristoforo Colombo

SS Cristoforo Colombo was an Italian ocean liner launched in 1953, sister of the Andrea Doria, which served the Genoa–New York route for the Italian Line until 1977.

SS Eastland

The SS Eastland, later USS Wilmette, was a Great Lakes excursion steamship that capsized at its Chicago River dock on July 24, 1915, killing 844 people.

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, known as Mighty Fitz, was an American Great Lakes ore carrier that sank in a storm on Lake Superior in 1975 with all 29 crew.

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 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.