The USS Mizar was part of United Fruit Company's Great White Fleet and originally named SS Quiriqua.

The USS Mizar was built in 1932 for United Fruit Co. at Bethlehem Steel, Quincy, Massachusetts and originally named SS Quiriqua.

Decommissioned from the Navy, 1 April 1946, at Baltimore, Maryland she was returned to United Fruit Company who renamed her the SS Quiriqua.

The gruesome humor of the Nazis was not forgotten -- the gas chamber with a sign on it with the name of a Jewish foundation and bearing a copper Star of David -- nor the gratuitous sadism of SS officers.

At any rate, the substance of Eichmann's testimony was that all his actions flowed from his membership in the party and the SS, and though the Prosecutor did his utmost to prove actual personal hatred of Jews, his success on this score was doubtful and the anti-Semitic lesson weakened to that extent.

Its first Allied-appointed mayor, Franz Oppenhoff, was murdered by an SS commando unit.

The SS-Totenkopfverbände ( SS-TV ) was the SS organization responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps for the Third Reich.

The SS-TV was an independent unit within the SS with its own ranks and command structure.

A. S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome ; Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

* Hermann Fegelein SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant and Adolf Hitler's brother in law was a great admirer of his birthplace, Ansbach.

* 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

In 1957 Harry Trask was a young staff photographer at the Traveler when he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his photo sequence of the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria in July 1956.

U-41 was in the process of sinking SS Urbino with gunfire when Baralong arrived on the scene, flying an American flag.

Other artists usually considered part of this movement include Hellhammer and Celtic Frost ( from Switzerland ), Kreator, Sodom and Destruction ( from Germany ), Bulldozer and Death SS ( from Italy ), whose vocalist Steve Sylvester was a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis.

The first cardinal from the family was appointed in 1206 when Giovanni Colonna di Carbognano was made Cardinal Deacon of SS.

A huge ceremony was arranged on November 9, 1933 in which the Freikorps leaders symbolically gave their old battle flags to Hitler's SA and SS.

On 18 January 1994 the SS American Star ( former America, USS West Point, Australis ) was beached in Playa de Garcey during a storm.

The one incident that resulted in the death of Gibraltarians occurred on 31 January 1938 when the insurgent submarine General Sanjurjo sank the SS Endymion, a small Gibraltar-registered freighter taking a cargo of coal to Cartagena, which was chartered by the Republican government.

Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of SS national leader, Heinrich Himmler who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police ( Chef der Deutschen Polizei ) by Hitler.

At this time, the Gestapo was condemned as a criminal organization with the SS.

The local offices of the Gestapo, known as Stapostellen and Stapoleitstellen, answered to a local commander known as the Inspekteur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (" Inspector of the Security Police and Security Service ") who, in turn, was under the dual command of Referat N of the Gestapo and also his local SS and Police Leader.

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 ) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) of Nazi Germany.

That same year, he joined the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) as an SS-Führer ( SS-Leader ); his SS number was 168.

* SS Columbus ( 1873 ), an American merchantman converted in 1878 into the Russian cruiser Asia

Sixtus had, however, no appreciation of antiquities, which were employed as raw material to serve his urbanistic and Christianising programs: Trajan's Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius ( at the time misidentified as the Column of Antoninus Pius ) were made to serve as pedestals for the statues of SS Peter and Paul ; the Minerva of the Capitol was converted into an emblem of Christian Rome ; the Septizonium of Septimius Severus was demolished for its building materials.

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

He discussed Marxism in the CO camp, and while traveling home on the SS General Bradley in 1946, he met Don Merrill, a fellow soldier, also from Lynn, who converted him to Trotskyism.

The SS President Coolidge was a converted luxury liner that hit a mine during the war.

This changed after the success of the SS Norway ( originally the ocean liner SS France, which was converted to cruising duties ) as the Caribbean's first " super-ship ".

In March 1944, the former SS depot was converted to a new sub-camp, and was named Gusen II.

* SS Peralta, a concrete oil tanker, converted to a breakwater

Originally built as the SS Oregon, a break bulk cargo freighter for States Lines, it was converted by the Maritime Administration and delivered to the College for use as a training ship in 1990.

The rest were landed from a Trojan horse, the SS River Clyde, a 4, 000 ton converted collier.

The designation HMT ( Hired Military Transport ) would normally replace RMS ( Royal Mail Ship ) or SS ( Steamship ) on ships converted to troopship duty with Great Britain's Royal Navy.

In the era of the Cold War the United States designed the SS United States so that it could easily be converted from a liner to a troopship, in case of war.

Both remained on the SS America until the U. S. Navy converted that ship into the USS West Point.

* The Sturgis, a converted liberty ship formerly known as SS Charles H. Cugle

The last major shipbuilding project undertaken by the Commission was to oversee the design and construction of the super passenger liner SS United States which was intended to be both a symbol of American technological might and maritime predominance but also could be quickly converted into the world's fastest naval troop transport.

The islands are the site of many shipwrecks, including the liberty ship SS Henry Bergh, a converted troop carrier that hit West End in 1944, pieces of which can still be seen from the island today ( all hands were saved ).

In August 1914, SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was requisitioned by the Kaiserliche Marine and converted into an auxiliary cruiser, assigned to commerce raiding in the Atlantic.

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.

* SS Evelyn and Carolyn, identical cargo vessels that became USS Asterion ( AK-100 ) and USS Atik ( AK-101 ) respectively,

* the tanker SS Gulf Dawn, which became USS Big Horn, and

* USS Camden ( AS-6 ), formerly the SS Kiel, served as a submarine tender from 1919-1931, then as a barracks ship during World War II

The Liberty ship SS Robert E. Peary, the destroyer USS Peary ( DD-226 ) the cargo ship USNS Robert E. Peary ( T-AKE-5 ), Knox-class frigate USS Robert E. Peary ( FF 1073 ) and ice rated, US-flagged tanker Maersk Peary were named for him.

While sunken ships from the Spanish Main ( such as Nuestra Señora de Atocha in the Florida Keys ) are the most commonly thought of type of treasure salvage, other types of ships including German submarines from World War II which can hold valuable historical artifacts, American Civil War ships ( the USS Maple Leaf in the St. Johns River, and the CSS Virginia in Chesapeake Bay ), and sunken merchant ships ( the SS Central America off Cape Hatteras ) have all been the subject of treasure salvage awards.

* USS Mariposa, war service designation of SS Mariposa

The French ocean-liner SS Normandie was to be the troopship USS Lafayette after being acquired by the US Government, but was destroyed by a fire before conversion to the new role was completed.

* USS Stokes ( AKA-68 ), cargo ship named SS Sierra 1947 – 1961

* USS Von Steuben ( ID-3017 ), a U. S. Navy transport in World War I ; formerly the German ocean liner SS Kronprinz Wilhelm

Submersible ROVs have been used to locate many historic shipwrecks, including that of the RMS Titanic, the Bismarck, USS Yorktown, and SS Central America.

* USS Harvard 1945-At the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Calif., the 10, 800-ton SS Harvard Victory was launched as the first of a new series of U. S. Maritime Commission ships named after U. S. educational institutions.

* USS America ( ID-3006 ) or SS Amerika, a Hamburg America Line liner seized in World War I

In 1942, the USS Lafayette ( formerly SS Normandie ) caught fire at Pier 88, remaining capsized there for a year.

* USS Powhatan ( ID-3013 ), originally the SS Hamburg ( 1899 ), a transport ship of the United States Navy

* The first USS Tunny ( SS / SSG / APSS / LPSS-282 ), a Gato-class submarine, served in World War II, as a Regulus missile boat, and during the Vietnam War.

* The US Navy considered acquiring a civilian passenger-cargo ship, SS San Jacinto, for use during World War I as USS San Jacinto ( ID-1531 ), but never acquired or commissioned her.

The United States Navy ship, USS Graham ( DD-192 ), the World War II Liberty ship SS William A. Graham, and the city of Graham, North Carolina were all named for him.

The USS Enterprise responds to messages it has received from the SS Tsiolkovsky, a science vessel monitoring the collapse of a supergiant star ; the messages suggest that the crew has been exposed to a sudden hull breach amid rounds of laughter.

* SS John A. Logan or USS Alnitah ( AK-127 ), American US Navy ship in service during the Second World War

A few examples of prefixes for naval ships are " USS " ( United States Ship ), " HMS " ( Her / His Majesty's Ship ), " HMCS " ( Her / His majesty's Canadian Ship ) and " HTMS " ( His Thai Majesty's Ship ), while a few examples for prefixes for merchant ships are " RMS " ( Royal Mail Ship, usually a passenger liner ), " MV " ( Motor Vessel, powered by Diesel ) and " SS " ( Steam Ship, now seldom seen, powered by steam ).