Albert Speer notes that though Himmler seemed pedantic and insignificant on the surface, he was a good decision maker, had a talent for selecting highly competent staff, and successfully inserted the SS into every aspect of daily life.

The only remaining fully intact buildings are the former SS HQ at Hotel Zum Türken, Albert Speer's house and the Kehlsteinhaus.

The SS Albert Ballin was named in his honor, as is the Ballindamm, a street in central Hamburg.

German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring commanded the four German divisions at Anzio, which included the Herman Goering Division and the 35th Panzer Grenadier Regiment of the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS Division.

The first reason was that many of the practicalities were commanded elsewhere: the Wehrmacht and the SS managed the military and security aspects, Fritz Sauckel as Reich Director of Labour had control over manpower and working areas, Hermann Göring and Albert Speer had total management of economic aspects in the territories and the Reich postal service administered the Eastern territories ' postal services.

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The state owned shipping company Compagnie Générale Transatlantique commissioned the ship builders of Saint-Nazaire to construct a new large passenger ship, which as a result between 1928 and 1934 created the Albert Caquot engineered the Louis Joubert dry dock – at 3937 feet x 196. 850 feet, the largest of its kind in the world at the time – necessary to be able to accommodate the construction of the SS Normandie.

* SS Prince Albert

* SS König Albert, German ocean liner at the time of World War I

The plan came to fruition and a monastery-rectory consonant with the church's Romanesque architecture served the church until 1963, when pastor Father Albert Leunens, SS. CC., constructed a new rectory in the Romanesque style made separate from the monastery.

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Discouraged at the destruction of his work building the Hamburg-America fleet, and perhaps fearing the loss of his ships, Ballin committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills two days before the armistice ended World War I. Ballin's fears were soon to be realized ; the company's flagships, the triumvirate SS Imperator, SS Vaterland and SS Bismarck were ceded as war prizes to Great Britain and the United States.

* In 1865 Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable.

* SS Empire Bell, a 1, 744 GRT collier which was built by Öresundsvarvet, Landskrona, Sweden as the 2, 023 GRT passenger ship Belgia in 1930

* SS Belgian, a cargo ship in service with F Leyland & Co Ltd from 1919 to 1934

* SS Belgia, a passenger ship in service with the Gotha Line from 1930 to 1941

* 1918 – SS Tuscania ( 1914 ) is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland ; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.

* SS Goya, a Norwegian ship that carried eastern European refugees to New Zealand in 1951

* SS Glaucus ( 1871 ), a sister ship of SS Antenor ( 1872 )

* The SS Imo, a ship involved in the Halifax Explosion

* SS John W. Brown, Liberty ship

He left New York on 27 March, but his ship, the SS Kristianiafjord, was intercepted by British naval officials in Canada at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and he spent a month detained at Amherst, Nova Scotia.

In 1914, NNS built the SS Medina for the Mallory Steamship Company ; as the MV Doulos she is now the world's oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship.

* 1898 – The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.

* SS Republic of 1853, a ship lost in an 1865 hurricane with a large cargo of gold coins

* RMS Republic of 1903, the second White Star liner to bear the name, and the first ship ever to signal distress by wireless telegraphy, lost after colliding with the SS Florida

* SS Oliver Ellsworth, a 7, 191 ton American liberty ship in World War II

* SS Samuel Huntington, an American liberty ship

The lasting connections were achieved by the ship SS Great Eastern, captained by Sir James Anderson.

The Liberty ship SS Wendell L. Willkie was named for him.

* February 5 – The SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the Irish coast, it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.

The U. S. Liberty ship SS Robert Rowan explodes during the Allied invasion of Sicily, July 11, 1943.

* July 25 – south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Swedish ship SS Stockholm in heavy fog, killing 51.

* August 18 – The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.

* January 1 – The ship SS Catala is driven onto the beach in Ocean Shores, Washington, stranding her.

The SS Xantho engine that was recovered in 1985 from a saline environment after over a century underwater is presently considered somewhat anomalous, in that after two decades of treatment it can now be turned over by hand.

The lough is also famous for its wildlife-watching ( dolphins, porpoise, sea birds, migratory geese and swans ) and diving on the numerous ship wrecks, including the SS Laurentic sunk by a German mine ( possible torpedo ), which went down with 3, 211 ingots of gold of which 3, 191 were recovered.

* April-Engine of SS Xantho ( sunk 1872 ) recovered off Western Australia.

* A team of divers recovered a safe from the wreckage of the cruise ship SS Andrea Doria, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean on July 25, 1956.

Later under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler between 1929 and 1945, the SS was renamed the " Schutz-Staffel " and grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the largest and most powerful organizations in the Third Reich.

That same year, the Stosstrupp was expanded to a national level, and renamed successively the Sturmstaffel ( storm squadron ), then the Schutzkommando ( protection command ), and finally the Schutzstaffel ( SS ).

The SS-Gruppen were renamed as SS-Oberabschnitt, and the former SS Headquarters and command offices were reorganized into three and then eight SS-Hauptämter.

* SS Mariposa ( 1931 ), Matson Lines ocean liner ; renamed SS Homeric in 1953

* SS Dorchester, a civilian cruise ship converted for WWII wartime duty as a U. S. Army Transport ship, and renamed USAT Dorchester.

* SS Wasa ( 1907 ) a Swedish cargo ship launched in 1907, sold to Norway in 1925 and renamed Henry

*, was purchased by the US Navy as SS Massachusetts from the Eastern Steamship Co. in 1917 ; commissioned 7 December 1917 and renamed Shawmut 7 January 1918

* SS Cuba ( 1920 ), a ship renamed as SS Cuba in 1920, which sank in 1923

For a long time cruise ships were smaller than the old ocean liners had been, but in the 1980s this changed when Knut Kloster, the director of Norwegian Caribbean Lines, bought one of the biggest surviving liners, the SS France, and transformed her into a huge cruise ship, which he renamed the SS Norway.

* SS Oronsay ( 1887 ) ( renamed Hainaut after 1900 ) 2, 070 GRT steamship wrecked off Skyros in 1911.

In 1984, a local juvenile club Donore Iosagain amalgamated with SS Michaels and James ' and the club was renamed the Liffey Gaels.

* SS Homeric, a Home Lines ship renamed in 1953 from the original SS Mariposa ( 1931 )

* SS Minna, a Swedish cargo ship sold and renamed Britt in 1934

* SS Georgia ( 1890 ), a German passenger liner seized by the United States during World War I, renamed Housatonic, and sunk by a German submarine

In June 1944, the brigade was absorbed as a part of the Waffen-SS and renamed Waffen-Sturm-Brigade RONA, with Kaminski being given the rank of Waffen-Brigadeführer der SS, the only man with such rank.

In mid-1925, the Schutzkommando was renamed the Sturmstaffel ( storm squadron ) and in December the Schutzstaffel ( protection squadron ), and in the following year adopted its first recognizable rank insignia system which was used mainly by senior SS personnel at major rallies, with the rank and file of the SS, like the rest of the SA, still wearing a variety of brown shirts or paramilitary uniforms with no recognizable insignia.

The unit was later renamed to 6th SS Mountain Division Nord and led by General Demelhuber.

It was refurbished at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard in Hoboken, renamed SS Stevens and anchored on the Hudson River adjacent to the campus where it served a dormitory.

*, a British coastal collier that was renamed SS Pitwines in 1932 and sank as the result of a collision in 1941