* SS Britannia ( 1925 ), a passenger ship sunk by the German auxiliary cruiser Thor in 1941 with the loss of 249 lives.

* SS Britannia, one of a number of steamships built between 1863 and 1929

He studied agronomy in college, and joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS in 1925.

The SS, initially part of the much larger SA, was formed in 1923 for Hitler's personal protection, and was re-formed in 1925 as an elite unit of the SA.

The first group associated with SS ( but not known as such ) existed briefly in 1923, before being disbanded and re-founded in 1925.

This second version of the SS, sometimes known as the " Pre-Himmler SS ", existed from 1925 to 1929 ; the more recognizable SS under Heinrich Himmler then came into being.

Between 1925 and 1929, the SS was considered merely a small Gruppe of the SA and numbered no more than 1000 personnel ; by 1929 that number was down to 280.

In early 1925, the future SS was a single, thirty-man company that was Hitler's personal bodyguard.

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

* The Order's " nearly 58 years of existence " is increased to 68, making the date of its founding 1925, a reference to the SS.

* SS Berlin III, a ship built in 1925 that later became the Admiral Nakhimov

*, originally SS Arizona, was purchased by the United States Department of War, then transferred to the Navy in 1902, and used as a transport until 1925.

Although having built the SS Paris, between 1913 and 1921, and SS Ile de France between 1925 and 1926, as a result of the 1930s Great Depression the French government commissioned a series of state programs to aid national economic activity.

* SS Oronsay ( 1925 ) Orient Line liner and troopship torpedoed off Liberia in 1942

* SS Viking ( 1925 ), a Viking Line steam-powered car ferry

The uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel were paramilitary ranks and uniforms used by the SS between 1925 and 1945 to differentiate that organization from the regular German armed forces, the German state, and the Nazi Party.

When the SA ( which included the nascent SS ) was re-founded in 1925 following Hitler's release from prison, these brown shirts were issued as uniforms.

The last large ship to be lost was the four masted windjammer, the SS Paul, carrying a cargo of timber and grounding in a storm in 1925.

In 1925 the steamer SS Caribou began service.

A sister ship named SS Rook was built at the same time but foundered in a gale off Anglesey in 1925.

First founded as a title in 1925, in 1928 the rank became one of the first commissioned Nazi ranks and was bestowed upon those SA and SS officers who commanded units known as Standarten which were regiment-sized formations of between three hundred and five hundred men.

was a special SS rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945.

Reichsführer-SS was a title from 1925 to 1933 and, after 1934, the highest rank of the German Schutzstaffel ( SS ).

Sir Edward Grey replied through the American ambassador that the incident could be grouped together with the Germans ' sinking of the SS Arabic, their attack on a stranded British submarine on the neutral Dutch coast, and their attack on the steamship Ruel, and suggested that they be placed before a tribunal composed of US Navy officers.

* SS Java, a British and French ocean liner built in 1865

* 1906 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.

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.

* SS Persia ( 1900 ), British ocean liner sunk by U-boat in 1915

The 2nd SS was not engaged in Normandy until July, and then at Caen against the British and Canadians, one hundred miles east.

* May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, former head of the Nazi SS, commits suicide in British custody.

* March 17 – The British steamship SS Utopia, carrying Italian migrants to New York, sinks in the inner harbor of Gibraltar after collision with the battleship HMS Anson, killing 564.

In naval history, an early 20th century British Merchant Navy freight ship SS Tantalus and a United States Navy landing craft repair ship of the World War II ( USS Tantalus ( ARL-27 )) were named after Tantalus.

* A British steamer named SS Sir Robert Peel, based in Canada, was burned by American forces on 29 May 1838, at the height of American-Canadian tensions over the Caroline Affair.

* SS Wimbledon, a British ship, and a legal case named for it, adjudicated by the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1923

* SS Alba, a British ship

* SS Doric ( 1883 ), a British ocean liner operated by White Star Line

Five hours after the initial landing, feeling that the British were tied down in Arnhem, the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 9th SS Panzer Division was able to cross the Arnhem bridge and drive to Nijmegen and the bridge over the Waal branch of the Rhine.

During World War II, it saw heavy fighting between Allied Paratroopers, British XXX Corps and the German II SS Panzer Corps, also known as the Battle of Arnhem.

" The most disturbing thing about The Patriot is not just that German director Roland Emmerich ( director of Independence Day ) and his screenwriter Robert Rodat ( who was criticized for excluding British, Canadian ( Juno Beach ) and other Allied soldiers from his script for Saving Private Ryan ) depicted British troops as committing savage atrocities, but that those atrocities bear such a close resemblance to war crimes carried out by German troops — particularly the SS in World War II.

Though critics faulted ... The Patriot for attributing actions to the hated British Legion that were in fact those of the SS in WWII, Edgar ( History / Univ.

In February 1917, the British General Staff released a training pamphlet titled SS 143 Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action, espousing the return to the pre-war emphasis on fire and movement tactics and the use of the platoon as a self-contained tactical unit.

SS Division Totenkopf machine-gunned 97 British prisoners near the La Bassée Canal.

* SS Empire Javelin a British World War 2 Infantry Landing Ship

The Zionist leadership in the British Mandate of Palestine wrote in February 1938 that according to " a very reliable private source – one which can be traced back to the highest echelons of the SS leadership " there was " an intention to carry out a genuine and dramatic pogrom in Germany on a large scale in the near future.

Named as Scawfell Island in 1879 by Staff Commander E. P. Bedwell of the British Royal Navy who surveyed and named many islands of the Whitsundays in 1879 in SS Llewellyn.

In one peculiar case, a British air attack in 1945 sank the German ship SS Deutschland with substantial loss of life.