Runa was a 1,942 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1944 as Eichberg by Van der Giessen, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Netherlands for German owners. She was seized by the Allies in April 1945, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Consent. In 1949, Empire Consent was sold into merchant service and renamed Runa. In 1964, she was sold to Greek owners and renamed Karyatis, serving until 1968 when she was scrapped.

SS Rotarian

SS Roma was a 30,000 gross register ton ocean liner built for the Italian shipping company Navigazione Generale Italiana of Genoa by Ansaldo shipyard in Sestri Ponente. She was the sister ship to MS Augustus. The ship was later transferred to the new Italian Line after the merger of Navigazione Generale Italiana.

Reina del Mar (1955–75)

SS Royal William was a Canadian side-wheel paddle steamship that is sometimes credited with achieving the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to be made almost entirely under steam power, using sails only during periods of boiler maintenance, though the British-built Dutch-owned Curaçao crossed in 1827, and the sail-steam hybrid SS Savannah used some steam power when crossing in 1819.

*Ravelston (1906-41)

SS Roll Call

SS Richard Montgomery was an American Liberty ship built during World War II, one of the 2,710 used to carry cargo during the war. The ship was wrecked off the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, England in 1944, whilst carrying a cargo of munitions. Around 1,400 tonnes (1,500 short tons) of explosives remain on board, which continue to be a hazard to the area.

SS Richard March Hoe

SS Richard A. Van Pelt was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Richard A. Van Pelt.

SS Re d'Italia was an Italian ocean liner for Lloyd Sabaudo named for the King of Italy (Italian: Re d'Italia). Launched in 1906, she sailed between Italy and New York and South America for most of her career. During World War I she was employed as a troopship carrying United States troops to France as part of the United States Navy Cruiser and Transport Force. She was scrapped in 1929.

*Minister (1911-1917)

SS Royal Odyssey

The SS Richmond P. Hobson (Hull # 1994) was an American World War II Liberty ship built by North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina.

SS Ralph Creyke was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1878.

SS Robert J. Banks was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Robert J. Banks.

SS Roger B. Taney was a Liberty Ship built in Baltimore, Maryland in 1942. It was torpedoed by German submarine U-160 in the south Atlantic Ocean and sunk on 8 Feb 1943.

SS Robert M T Hunter

USS Tennessee (1862-1864)

*SS Angela (until 1931)

Sold for commercial use, 26 February 1947

*Athos Romanos (1902-1916)

SS Registan (1910)

North Heaven

*Quersee (1931-45)

SS Regina was a tanker built in Belfast in 1904 that sank on March 8, 1940, near Bradenton Beach, Florida, United States. Her wreck is located in the Gulf of Mexico, 75 yards (69 meters) off Bradenton Beach. In April 2005, the wreck became the tenth Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve. On December 6, 2005, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

SS Rother was a freight vessel built for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1914.

Ravelston was an 2,808 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1906 for the Ravelston Steamship Co Ltd. She was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) in 1941 and renamed Empire Bond. In 1946 she was sold and renamed Prenton. Following a grounding in 1949, she was declared a constructive total loss, but was sold and repaired, returning to service as Agios Dionysissios. In 1951 she was renamed Sandenis and then San Denis, serving until she was scrapped in 1959.

SS Re D’Italia

*Laid up inNational Defense Reserve FleetAstoria, Oregon, 27 November 1946

*Rosehill (1917)

SS Red Oak Victory

SS Rivière Sport

Reina del Mar was a 20,334 GRT liner which was built by Harland and Wolff in 1955 for Pacific Steam Navigation Company (PSNC). It operated as a passenger liner from the United Kingdom to the western coast of South American until the early 1960s. The Reina del Mar was then a cruise liner that operated out of Southampton during the summer months and out of South Africa during the winter months. It was scrapped in 1975.

SS Rochambeau

SS River Afton

SS Robert E. Peary

*Transferred to and laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet,Suisun Bay, California, 17 December 1946

*Empire Citizen (1943-45)

*Amrum (1926-31)

Maria (1900–1974)

SS Rodina (Vulkan, 1922)

SS River Crake (1877)

*Vittorin (1940)

SS Rhein (1899)

SS Red Oak Victory (victory ship)

Maruja y Aurora

SS Regulus (T-AKR 292) is an Algol class vehicle cargo ship that is currently maintained by the United States Maritime Administration as part of the Military Sealift Command's Ready Reserve Force (RRF). She was built as a high speed container ship by A.G. Weser in Bremen, West Germany, hull no. 1383, for Sea-Land Service, Inc. and named SS Sea-Land Commerce, USCG 545200, IMO 7302897. Due to her high operating cost, she was sold to the United States Navy on 27 October 1981 as USNS Regulus (T-AK-292).In keeping with the pattern of the naming the Algol-class ships after bright stars, the Regulus was named after Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.

*Marstonmoor (1890-1902)

Regina Shipwreck Site

SS Roussalka

SS Richard With

The SS Regina was a steel canaler built for the Merchant Mutual Line and home ported in Montreal, Quebec. Named after Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina had a tonnage of 1,956 gross register tons (GRT) and a crew of 32.The ship sank during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 after taking great damage. Lost for more than a half century, she became known as the "Great Mystery of the Great Storm of the Great Lakes". Since found, she has become an active dive site for scuba divers and is now part of Michigan's underwater Preserve system.

SS R. J. Reynolds

SS Re d'Italia

SS Red Oak Victory is a U.S. military Victory ship of the Boulder Victory-class cargo ship used in the Second World War. She was preserved to serve as a museum ship in Richmond, California, and is part of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. She was one of 534 Victories built during World War II, but one of only a few of these ships to be transferred from the Merchant Marine to the United States Navy. She was named after Red Oak, Iowa, which suffered a disproportionate number of casualties in early World War II battles. (Montgomery County ranked third among Iowa counties in World War II casualties per capita). The ship was active during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

*Guantanamo (1911)

SS Rochambeau was a French Transatlantic ocean liner.

SS Ravenscraig

SS Riviera (1911)

R. Walton Moore

*Laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet,Wilmington, North Carolina, 16 September 1955

SS Robert E. Peary was a Liberty ship which gained fame during World War II for being built in a shorter time than any other such vessel. Named after Robert Peary, an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person to reach the geographic North Pole, she was launched on November 12, 1942 just 4 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes after the keel was laid down.

SS Ringas

Rohilla
On 30 October 1914, struck a reef at Saltwick, near Whitby, and sank.

SS Russell Sage was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Russell Sage, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York, financier, and railroad executive.

Sank en route to scrapping atAlang, India

SS Queen of the Isle

*Empire Bond (1941-46)

SS Ragnhild (1941)

Richard Randall

PS (RMS) Queen Victoria No. 93379 was a steel built paddle steamer which was purchased together with her sister PS Prince of Wales, by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company from the Isle of Man, Liverpool and Manchester Steamship Company in 1888 - referred to as The Manx Line.

TSS Retford

The SS Raifuku Maru (来福丸 (Kyūjitai: 來福丸), Raifuku Maru) was a Japanese Dai-ichi Taifuku Maru-class cargo ship, which was built in 1918 at Kawasaki Dockyard in Kobe, Japan, and owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd.. In April 1925, it sank in a heavy storm during a voyage from Boston, USA, to Hamburg, Germany, with a cargo of wheat and a crew of thirty-eight, all of whom were lost.

SS Rotterdam was a 19th century ocean-going steamer. She was built in 1878 by the shipbuilding firm, Harland and Wolff, and had a gross tonnage of 3,361 tons. Originally named British Empire, she was owned by the British Ship Owners Co. and operated by the American Line. Her maiden voyage began on September 25, 1878, going from Liverpool, England, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 13 days, arriving on October 7, 1878.

SS Rose Ann

SS Robert Battey was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Robert Battey, a Confederate States Army surgeon and later a civilian gynecologist.

*Laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet,James River Group,Lee Hall, Virginia, 12 March 1965

SS Ripon

Rose Ann

River Clyde

SS Regulus (T-AKR-292)

SS Robert Trimble was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Robert Trimble, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

SS Reina del Mar

SS Quirigua

SS Rawalpindi

SS Red Star

Roy James Cole

Robin (1974–present)

SS Rapallo

SS Robin is a 350 gross registered ton (GRT) steam coaster, a class of steamship designed for carrying bulk and general cargoes in coastal waters, and the oldest complete example in the world. One of a pair of coasters built in Bow Creek, London] in 1890, the ship was built for British owners, but spent most of her long working life on the Spanish coast as Maria.In 1974 she was purchased for restoration as Robin and is listed by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet (the nautical equivalent of a Grade 1 Listed Building). She is situated in the Royal Victoria Dock in east London, opening as the SS Robin museum, theatre and educational centre in 2014.

*Robin Doncaster (1942-57)

SS Raifuku Maru

Quersee was a 999 GRT coaster that was built in 1926 as Amrum by Nordseewerke, Emden for German owners. She was sold in 1931 and renamed Quersee. She was seized by the Allies in May 1945 at Brunsbüttel, Germany, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Condor. She was sold into merchant service in 1947 and renamed Mediterranean Trader. In 1949, she was sold to India and was renamed Maharashmi, serving until 1951 when she ran aground as was wrecked.

SS Roy James Cole was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Roy James Cole, who was lost at sea while he was the Chief engineer on SS Expositor, after she was torpedoed by German submarine U-606, on 22 February 1943, in the North Atlantic.

Released from the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 19 September 1998 for restoration at the Richmond, California, Museum of History

SS Regulus (80531) was a Steamship registered in St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland. She was lost, with all hands, on October 23, 1910 on the rocks known as Hayes' Reef in Leeward Cove (now known as Lower Cove), 1.5 miles south of Motion Head, Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove, Newfoundlandduring a southeast gale. The gale was most probably the last remnants of the1910 Cuba hurricane.

*Flying Gull (1957-68)

SS Raffaello was an Italian ocean liner built in the early 1960s for Italian Line by the Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Trieste. It was one of the last ships to be built primarily for liner service across the North Atlantic. Her sister ship was the SS Michelangelo.

*SS Iris (1906-1918)

SS Republic was a sidewheel steamship, originally named SS Tennessee (also named CSS Tennessee, USS Tennessee, and USS Mobile for a time), lost in a hurricane off the coast of Georgia in October 1865, en route to New Orleans.In 2003, the wreck was located 100 mi (160 km) off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and artifacts are on display in selected museums, along with video stories about passengers and crew members.

SS Royal Iris was a Mersey Ferryboat built in 1906 for Wallasey Corporation. She was built as Iris for service on the River Mersey. In 1918 she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for action during the Zeebrugge Raid. She was renamed Royal Iris in recognition of her part in this action and returned to civilian duties. She was sold in 1931 and renamed Blarney in 1946. She was scrapped in December 1961.

*Ridge Park

*Laid up inNational Defense Reserve Fleet,Subic Bay, Philippines, 4 January 1946

SS Robert M. T. Hunter

SS Red Jacket

SS Maruja y Aurora

Rohilla was a passenger steamer of the British India Steam Navigation Company which was built for service between the UK and India, and as a troopship. After becoming a hospital ship in the First World War, Rohilla ran aground in October 1914 near Whitby with the loss of 83 lives.

SS Ridge Park was a steam ship built in 1878 in England and registered in Australia. It was used to transport coal, other goods and passengers by the Black Diamond Line of Adelaide. It sank on 10 February 1881 after hitting the Beware Reef, Cape Conran, Australia.

SS Robert Coryndon

SS Rheinland (1885)

SS Radiotelegraphiste Biard

Destroyed September 8, 1944, by Allied bombers.

*Empire Consent (1945–49)

Sank in storm in North Atlantic in 1925, with the loss of 38 lives.

*Agios Dionysissios (1950-51)

SS Republic

SS Royston Grange (1959)

*Red Star (1887)

SS Redfield Proctor

SS Rosehill – also known as SS Penhill – was a 2,788-tonne steel-hulled collier built in 1911 by S.P. Austin and Son of Sunderland under the name Minster. She was torpedoed by the Imperial German Navy submarine U-40 in the English Channel off Fowey, Cornwall, England, on 23 September 1917 while en route from Cardiff, Wales, to Devonport. She was taken under tow but sank in Whitsand Bay at 18:05.

SS Robert R. Livingston was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Robert R. Livingston, a Founding Father of the United States, a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, the 1st United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs, the 1st Chancellor of New York, and a Minister to France.

*Mediterranean Trader (1947-49)

*Laid up inNational Defense Reserve Fleet,James River Group,Lee Hall, Virginia, 27 May 1948

Glen I

SS Rexton Kent (1943)

*SS Blarney (1947-)

*Empire Curlew (1941-42)

renamed (1895) SS Edam

SS R. Walton Moore was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after R. Walton Moore, a member of the Virginia Senate and United States Representative from Virginia.

Robert Battey

SS Roanoke

SS Radaas (1890)

SS Roger B. Taney

SS Rotterdam was a Dutch Passenger ship that ran aground and sunk on the Zeehondenbank near the Dutch island of Schouwen, while she was travelling from New York, United States to Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The SS Ranchi was a British passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner. During World War II she served as an armed merchant cruiser HMS Ranchi.

SS Ralph Creyke was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1879.

Ravenscrag

SS Robert MT Hunter

SS Rhenania (1923)

The SS Rijndam (also spelled Ryndam) was a ship that was built for the Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart-Maatschappij, more widely know in English as the Holland America Line in 1951. She was built by N.V. Dok en Werfmaatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam. The original intent of her design was to be designated as the freighter Dinteldyk (which was also designed to carry a small complement of passengers).

SS Rose Ann was built by H. M. McIntyre, Paisley, in 1879, and was constructed as a steam lighter. She was registered in Glasgow operating for James O’Brien. The Rose Ann was 105 ft long, with a beam of 19 ft, a 9 ft draught and was powered by two engines developing 48 horse power aside (a total of 96 shp (72 kW) . The Rose Ann was 130 tons.

SS Runa

SS Rimutaka (1922)

Nikolis M

SS Rudesheimer

SS Royal William was a Canadian side-wheel paddle steamship that is sometimes credited with achieving the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to be made almost entirely under steam power, using sails only during periods of boiler maintenance, though the British-built Dutch-owned Curaçao crossed in 1827, and the sail-steam hybrid SS Savannah used some steam power when crossing in 1819. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1831 to 1837.The 1,370-ton SS Royal William (named after the ruling monarch, William IV) was 160 feet (49 m) long, of 44 feet (13 m) breadth and had a draught of 17¾ft, a large steamship for the time. She was drawn by 21-year old James Goudie who had by then served his apprenticeship, likely at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Greenock, Scotland, a seaport on the Firth of Clyde and also the birthplace of James Watt.

Italian motor merchant SS Rosanna, built in 1937, in Zaandam, in the Netherlands. Scuttled on 9 February 1941, in the Gulf of Sidra by Italians to avoid capture by British troops.

SS Riga (1925)

SS Richmond P. Hobson

Robert Lansing

Capsized and sank between November 9 and November 10, 1913 during theGreat Lakes Storm of 1913.

SS Robin Doncaster was a 7,101 GRT cargo liner that was built in 1940 as a Type C2-S cargo ship by Bethlehem Steel Co, Sparrows Point, Maryland, United States for the United States Maritime Commission (USMC). On completion in April 1941, she was transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Curlew. In 1942, she was transferred to the USMC, regaining her former name Robin Doncaster. She was rebuilt as a troop transport, and entered service with the War Shipping Administration in January 1944. She was returned to the USMC in April 1946 and was sold to Seas Shipping Co Inc in 1948. In 1957, she was sold to Isbrandtsen Lines and was renamed Flying Gull. Sold to American Export Lines in 1962, she served until she was scrapped in 1968.

*Empire Condor (1945-47)

SS Republic (1872)

SS Retford (1883)

SS Riviera

*HMS Iris II (1918)

SS Robert J. Banks

SS Roulers

Sunk by torpedoes fromU-1163on 3 December 1944

Rex

*1939-1945: SS Aquila

SS Rivoli

SS Regina (1907)

SS Riviere Sport

SS Rob Roy

SS Rosehill – also known as SS Penhill – was a 2,788-tonne steel-hulled collier built in 1911 by S.P. Austin and Son of Sunderland under the name Minster. She was torpedoed by the Imperial German Navy submarine U-40 in the English Channel off Fowey, Cornwall, England, on 23 September 1917 while en route from Cardiff, Wales, to Devonport. She was taken under tow but sank in Whitsand Bay at 18:05. Her wreck lies in 28 metres (92 feet) of water at 50°19.793′N 4°18.520′W with her bow to the north.This wreck, which has been adopted by Totnes SAC under the "adopt-a-wreck" scheme, is often overlooked by divers, as the wrecks of the Liberty ship SS James Eagan Layne and Royal Navy frigate HMS Scylla are close by and in shallower water. The wreck is considerably broken up, and is hard to find on an echo sounder.

SS Ralph Creke

SS Rajamouli

SS Roma (1926)

*Prenton (1946-50)

*TSS Antrim

SS Ringdove

*Ragnhild (1942-46)

Scrapped at Baltimore, Maryland, June 1963

SS R. Ney McNeely was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after R. Ney McNeely, a State Representative in North Carolina, a member of the North Carolina Senate, a later the American Consul in Aden.

SS Raymond Van Brogan

SS Rjäsan

SS Angela

SS Red Star, later called Okanagan, Lucy, and Red Star again, was a screw steamer that operated on Spallumcheen River and later Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada, serving various purposes under many owners, as well as undergoing renovations and modifications from her construction in 1887 to the closing of her registry in 1915.

*Ramsey Town

SS Robert M. T. Hunter (MC contract 348) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, an American statesman.The ship was laid down on December 11, 1942, then launched on March 28, 1943. The ship survived the war only to suffer the same fate as nearly all other Liberty ships that survived did; she was scrapped in 1971.

SS Ramdas

*SS Royal Iris (1918-1947)

SS River Clyde

Activ

Regina

*1926-1939: SS Roma

*USAT Grey Lag (Oct 43‑ after Apr 46)
Registan, built 1910, was the first name for a ship serving fifty years under the later names Guantanamo, USS Guantanamo (ID-1637), Comerio, Vittorin, Grey Lag and finally Hai Lung until scrapping in 1960. The ship transported gunpowder and munitions during World War I as USS Guantanamo and as a cargo ship during World War II for the War Shipping Administration (WSA).
*Registan

Libreville

TSS Retford was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1883.

SS Ridge Park

SS Robert Trimble

Capitaine Heusers

SS Ramsey Town

SS Rotterdam (1958)

SS Rende

SS Radcliffe Victory

SS Riviera (1951)

USS Mobile (1864-1865)

Sold to Desguaces y Salvamentos S.A.. Aviles for scrap, scrapping commenced 15 March 1966

SS Reina del Mar (1955)

SS Re d’Italia

SS Rakuyō Maru

SS Rotterdam

SS Robert Lansing was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Robert Lansing, a Counselor of the United States Department of State and United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson.

*Okanagan (1888)

*Sandenis (1951)

The SS Regina was a steel canaler built for the Merchant Mutual Line and home ported in Montreal, Quebec. Named after Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina had a tonnage of 1,956 gross register tons (GRT) and a crew of 32.The ship sank during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 after taking great damage. Lost for more than a half century, she became known as the "Great Mystery of the Great Storm of the Great Lakes".

SS Rockland Victory

Queen Victoria

SS R L Goulding

Laid up in theNational Defense Reserve Fleet,Wilmington, North Carolina, 5 June 1948

*Robin Doncaster (1940-41)

SS Re D'Italia

SS Republic (1853)

SS Rohilla

SS Reina del Pacifico

SS Round Splice

TREBISNJICA

*Hai Lung (1946), scrapped 1960.

* Maria Dolores (1950–1955)

Richard A. Van Pelt

SS Rodina was a Bulgarian Cargo Ship that struck a mine in the Black Sea 25 nautical miles (46 km) off Tsarevo, Bulgaria (42°23′N 27°48′E).

*Karyatis (1964–68)

SS Rimutaka

Rotterdam (1872-1883)

SS Robin Doncaster was a 7,101 GRT cargo liner that was built in 1940 as a Type C2-S cargo ship by Bethlehem Steel Co, Sparrows Point, Maryland, United States for the United States Maritime Commission (USMC). On completion in April 1941, she was transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Curlew. In 1942, she was transferred to the USMC, regaining her former name Robin Doncaster.

Ravenscrag (or Ravenscraig) is the name of several ships, some being sailing vessels (SV) and some steamships (SS). One of the sailing vessels is historically significant for bringing to the Hawaiian Islands in 1879 Portuguese immigrants who subsequently introduced the ukulele to island culture.

*Ingeborg (1972-76)

SS Richard K. Call

SS Roxburgh

SS Raffaello

Rijndam

SS Ralph Creyke (1879)

SS Red Jacket (1918)

SS Rajputana

*Grey Lag (1941)

Queen of the Sea

SS Robin is a 350 gross registered ton (GRT) steam coaster, a class of steamship designed for carrying bulk and general cargoes in coastal waters, and the oldest complete example in the world.

SS Reindeer I

Registan, built 1910, was the first name for a ship serving fifty years under the later names Guantanamo, USS Guantanamo (ID-1637), Comerio, Vittorin, Grey Lag and finally Hai Lung until scrapping in 1960. The ship transported gunpowder and munitions during World War I as USS Guantanamo and as a cargo ship during World War II for the War Shipping Administration (WSA). After 12 October 1943 the ship was assigned to the Southwest Pacific Area command's permanent local fleet as the United States Army transport Grey Lag with that fleet's number X-101. In April 1945 she was one of the transports towing large barges from Australia and New Guinea to the Philippines after that concept to mitigate shipping shortages had been proven feasible. In 1946 the ship was sold to the Republic of China and renamed Hai Lung.

SS Rotterdam (1886)

SS Red Oak Victory is a U.S. military Victory ship of the Boulder Victory-class cargo ship used in the Second World War. She was preserved to serve as a museum ship in Richmond, California, and is part of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. She was one of 534 Victories built during World War II, but one of only a few of these ships to be transferred from the Merchant Marine to the United States Navy.

SS Royal Iris

*Lucy

SS Rinkenæs

Raffaello

SS Robert Battey

The SS Rijndam (also spelled Ryndam) was a ship that was built for the Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart-Maatschappij, more widely know in English as the Holland America Line in 1951. She was built by N.V. Dok en Werfmaatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam. The original intent of her design was to be designated as the freighter Dinteldyk (which was also designed to carry a small complement of passengers). A decision was made to have her redesigned as a liner in 1950, but she still retained the stout hull lines and sturdy machinery of a freighter. The ship played a major role in post-war immigration from Europe making frequent voyages to New York City and the Pier 21 immigration facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1973, she was sold to a Panamanian subsidiary of a Greek shipping interest and extensively refitted with her bow line changed, many internal changes, and alterations to her superstructure. This was done to give her a more modern (at the time) 1970's design appearance. In 1988 she was sold to gaming interests and performed short cruises in the Gulf of Mexico under the name Pride of Mississippi, and in 1991 was renamed Pride of Galveston. In 1993, she was docked permanently in Gulfport, Mississippi and became the Copa Casino. When Copa Casino adopted a more permanent structure, a decision was made that she should be scrapped. In 2003, sunk on her way to the ship breakers in Alang, India.

SS Real Montecchio

Laid up inNational Defense Reserve Fleet,Wilmington, North Carolina, 11 January 1947

Roger B. Taney

Russell Sage

SS Radaas was a 2524-ton cargo steamship. She was built by and launched in 1890 as Marstonmoor for Moor Lines. She was sold to a Greek company in 1902 and renamed Athos Romanos, before being sold to Danish interests during the First World War and renamed Radaas. She was sunk by the German submarine UB-40 under the command of Oberleutnant Hans Howaldt on 21 September 1917. She was 18 miles west of Portland Bill en route from Tyne to Bordeaux when the torpedo struck her in the port side.
*Radaas (1916-1917)

SS Richard K. Call (MC contract 2473) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Richard Keith Call, territorial governor of Florida.The ship was laid down by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida, on February 21, 1944, then launched on April 15, 1944. The ship survived the war only to suffer the same fate as nearly all other Liberty ships that survived did; she was scrapped in 1970.

SS Rafael R. Rivera

SS R. Ney McNeely

SS Rissa

SS Richard Montgomery

Seized by Spanish Nationalists, assigned to Spanish National Navy

Isabel II

SS Queenworth

SS Quersee

Sank in a hurricane, October 25, 1865 approx. 100 miles (160km) southeast ofSavannah, Georgia

SS Ranchi

*Empire Carey (1941-42)

SS Rick Husband

SS Robert Lansing

SS Robert R. Livingston

*USS Guantanamo (ID-1637) 21 May 1918—25 January 1919

Ragnhild was a 2,866 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1941 for the British Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) as Empire Carey. In 1942 she was transferred to the Norwegian Government in exile and renamed Ragnhild. Her war service is very well documented, and serves to illustrate a typical tramp ship's service life during the Second World War.She was sold out of government service in 1946 and renamed Penelope.

SS Razmak

SS Rita Maersk

SS Royal William

SS Ralph Crayke (1878)

Rakuyo Maru

SS Ravelston

The SS Rex was an Italian ocean liner launched in 1931. She held the westbound Blue Riband between 1933 and 1935. Originally built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) as SS Guglielmo Marconi, its state-ordered merger with the Lloyd Sabaudo line meant that the ship sailed for the newly created Italia Flotta Riunite (Italian Line).Rex operated transatlantic crossings from Italy with its running mate, the Conte di Savoia prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

SS Republic (disambiguation)

*Comerio (1927)

Robert Trimble

SS Roma

SS Rotterdam (1897)

Andrea

*Queenworth (1945-60)

SS Robert T. Lincoln

*Maharashmi (1949-51)

SS Robin Doncaster

SS Raceland

*San Denis (1951-59)

SS Rey Alfonso

SS Richard Randall was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Richard Randall, a privateer and founder of Sailors' Snug Harbor.

SS Rob Roy was a Confederate blockade runner commanded by Captain William Watson, that ran to and from Bermuda, the Bahamas and Cuba from 1862 to 1864, during the American Civil War.Watson, who had immigrated from Great Britain several years before, had originally enlisted in the Confederate Army as a sergeant before being wounded at the Second Battle of Corinth, and discharged due to his injuries. Hiring out a schooner, commissioned as Rob Roy, Williams would bring desperately needed supplies into blockaded southern ports, specifically Galveston, Texas before selling the ship after financial disagreements with business associates. Williams would later write about his wartime naval career in an autobiography The Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner in 1892.

SS Republic (1903)

Vadsø

SS Reval

Sold to the Admiralty together with her sister, Prince of Wales, 1915. Scrapped in the Netherlands, 1920.

SS Robin Kettering

SS Richard With was a steamship in the Hurtigruten passenger ship fleet in Norway. It was built in 1909. It was sunk by the British submarine HMS Tigris in 1941, which caused the death of 99 people.

Queenworth was a 2,066 GRT collier which was built in 1943 as Empire Citizen by Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd, Grangemouth for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). In 1946 she was sold into merchant service and renamed Queenworth, serving until 1960 when she was scrapped.

R.J. Reynolds

Laid up in theNational Defense Reserve Fleet,Mobile, Alabama, 29 July 1949

Scuttled, raise scrapped in 1951, completed in 1952

*SS Rodina (1935-1941)

SS Rotterdam was a 19th century ocean-going steamer. She was built in 1878 by the shipbuilding firm, Harland and Wolff, and had a gross tonnage of 3,361 tons. Originally named British Empire, she was owned by the British Ship Owners Co. and operated by the American Line. Her maiden voyage began on September 25, 1878, going from Liverpool, England, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 13 days, arriving on October 7, 1878. The Liverpool-Philadelphia line was her main route until being sold in 1886 to the Nederlandsche-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Dutch-American Steamship Company), more commonly known as the Holland America Line. She was then renamed Rotterdam, being the second HAL ship to bear that name. Her route was also changed to Rotterdam-New York City, later being modified in 1890 to Amsterdam-New York City. In 1895, her name was once again changed to Edam, of which she was the third HAL ship. She continued ferrying passengers and cargo across the Atlantic Ocean until 1899 after which she was scrapped in Italy.

*SS Eisenach II (1922-1935)

SS Tennessee

SS Queen Victoria (1887)

*Transferred toUS Navyfortarget ship, 11 February 1964

Revoljucija

SS Radaas was a 2524-ton cargo steamship. She was built by and launched in 1890 as Marstonmoor for Moor Lines. She was sold to a Greek company in 1902 and renamed Athos Romanos, before being sold to Danish interests during the First World War and renamed Radaas. She was sunk by the German submarine UB-40 under the command of Oberleutnant Hans Howaldt on 21 September 1917. She was 18 miles west of Portland Bill en route from Tyne to Bordeaux when the torpedo struck her in the port side. The wreck lies on a sandy bed at a depth of 30 m at 50°34′13″N 3°4′50″W.

Rivière Sport

SS Regina

*Ran aground nearMindanao, Philippines, 6 September 1945

Queen of the Isle

SS Revoljucija

Laid up in theNational Defense Reserve Fleet,Beaumont, Texas, 3 August 1949

SS R. Walton Moore

SS Rosanna

SS Rotterdam (1872)

TSS Ramsey Town was a packet steamer which was initially ordered and operated by the Midland Railway Company under the name Antrim until it was acquired by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company in 1928.

SS Rijndam (1951)

SS Regina (1904)

SS Rheinland

*Laid up inNational Defense Reserve Fleet,Susisun Bay Group, 2 November 1948

SS R.J. Reynolds was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after R. J. Reynolds, founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

SS Ranpura

Torpedoed and sunk offIcelandin position

Ragnhild was a 2,866 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1941 for the British Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) as Empire Carey. In 1942 she was transferred to the Norwegian Government in exile and renamed Ragnhild. Her war service is very well documented, and serves to illustrate a typical tramp ship's service life during the Second World War.She was sold out of government service in 1946 and renamed Penelope. She was sold to Finland in 1950 and served until 1972 when she was sold to Sweden, renamed Ingeborg and hulked. Laid up in 1974, she was scrapped in Denmark in 1976.
*Penelope (1946-72)

SS Robert W. Hart

SS Radiotélégraphiste Biard

SS Rocquaine

R. Ney McNeely

SS Rosehill

Revoljucija (Revolution) was a Soviet steam merchant that was sunk by the German submarine U-1163 during World War II.

SS Richard Randall

Richard Montgomery

The SS Rex was an Italian ocean liner launched in 1931. She held the westbound Blue Riband between 1933 and 1935. Originally built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) as SS Guglielmo Marconi, its state-ordered merger with the Lloyd Sabaudo line meant that the ship sailed for the newly created Italia Flotta Riunite (Italian Line).Rex operated transatlantic crossings from Italy with its running mate, the Conte di Savoia prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Rex maintained a commercial service in the Mediterranean for a short period, but when Italy entered the war in June 1940 Rex was laid up for safe-keeping. On 8 September 1944, off Koper, Rex was hit by 123 rockets launched by RAF aircraft, caught fire from stem to stern. She burned for four days, then rolled onto the port side, and sank in shallow water. The ship was broken up at the site beginning in 1947.

SS Quinault Vicfory

SS Robert Coryndon was a British passenger and cargo ferry on Lake Albert in central Africa.

*Laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet,Olympia, Washington, 15 June 1955

SS Regulus (T-AKR 292) is an Algol class vehicle cargo ship that is currently maintained by the United States Maritime Administration as part of the Military Sealift Command's Ready Reserve Force (RRF). She was built as a high speed container ship by A.G. Weser in Bremen, West Germany, hull no. 1383, for Sea-Land Service, Inc. and named SS Sea-Land Commerce, USCG 545200, IMO 7302897.

*SS Maruja y Aurora (1931 onwards)

SS Rob Roy was a Confederate blockade runner commanded by Captain William Watson, that ran to and from Bermuda, the Bahamas and Cuba from 1862 to 1864, during the American Civil War.Watson, who had immigrated from Great Britain several years before, had originally enlisted in the Confederate Army as a sergeant before being wounded at the Second Battle of Corinth, and discharged due to his injuries.

SS Roy James Cole

The SS Race and Settlement Main Office, (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS, RuSHA), was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial 'purity' of the SS" within Nazi Germany.One of its duties was to oversee the marriages of SS personnel in accordance with the racial policy of Nazi Germany.

SS Rinkenaes

Shipwrecked July 1963,Hogsty Reef, Bahamas

SS Race and Settlement Main Office

SS Rohna

SS Radaas

SS Riga

SS Rother (1914)

Robert R. Livingston

Robert J. Banks

SS Regulus

SS Robin

CSS Tennessee

SS Rex

The SS Race and Settlement Main Office, (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS, RuSHA), was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial 'purity' of the SS" within Nazi Germany.One of its duties was to oversee the marriages of SS personnel in accordance with the racial policy of Nazi Germany. After Heinrich Himmler introduced the "marriage order" on December 31, 1931, the RuSHA would only issue a permit to marry once detailed background investigations into the racial fitness of both prospective parents had been completed and proved both of them to be of Aryan descent back to 1800.

SS Richard A. Van Pelt

SS Rainbow

SS Rajendran

Red Oak Victory

SS Russell Sage

NUEVA ESPERANZA

Belgium Equity

Located in theSanilac Shores Underwater Preserve

SS Ralph Creyke (1878)

Richmond P. Hobson

SS Rooseboom

SS Quest

*Eichberg (1944–45)

1914-1956:SS Rother

SS Ravenscrag

SS Republic (1917)