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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&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.

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.

SSC Tuatara

The SSC Tuatara is an American mid-engine hypercar built by SSC North America, powered by a twin-turbocharged 5.9-liter V8 producing up to 1,750 horsepower on ethanol fuel.

SSD (object detection)

SSD (Single Shot MultiBox Detector) is a one-stage object detection neural network that predicts object classes and bounding boxes in a single pass, introduced in 2015.

SSE plc

SSE plc, formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc, is a British FTSE 100 energy company in Perth, Scotland, that develops renewable generation and electricity networks.

SSE2

SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2) is an x86 instruction set extension introduced by Intel with the Pentium 4 and Xeon, adding 144 SIMD instructions for double-precision floating-point and integer math.

SSE4

SSE4, also known as Gesher New Instructions, is an Intel x86 instruction set extension announced in 2007; its 47-instruction SSE4.1 subset shipped with Penryn processors and SSE4.2 with Nehalem.

SSG wave energy generator

The SSG (Sea-wave Slot-cone Generator) is a Norwegian overtopping wave energy converter, patented in 2003, in which waves fill stacked reservoirs that drain through turbines to generate electricity.

SSH File Transfer Protocol

The SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is a protocol for secure file transfer and remote file system access, most commonly over a channel in the SSH version 2 suite.

SSI (Synchronous Serial Interface)

SSI (Synchronous Serial Interface) is a point-to-point serial protocol that transmits absolute encoder position data, developed by Max Stegmann GmbH in 1984 and still widely used in industrial automation.

SSI Schaefer

SSI Schaefer, also known as SSI Schäfer Gruppe, is a German family-owned provider of warehouse storage, picking, and transport systems, founded in 1937 and headquartered in Neunkirchen.

SSL 1300

SSL 1300, formerly the LS-1300 and FS-1300, is a modular satellite bus for large communications and imaging spacecraft, first flown in 1989 by Ford Aerospace in Palo Alto, California.

SSM-N-8 Regulus

The SSM-N-8 Regulus, also called Regulus I, was the US Navy's first operational attack missile, a nuclear-armed cruise missile built by Chance Vought that served from 1955 to 1964.

SSP platform

The SSP (Scalable Systems Platform) is Volkswagen Group's planned next-generation mechatronics platform for battery-electric vehicles, announced in 2021 to replace the Group's MQB, MSB, MLB, MEB, and PPE architectures.