SS California

SS "California" has been the name of at least seven ships:

* SS "California", a US Mail steamer built by William Henry Webb in 1848 for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company which operated between the Isthmus of Panama and the US Pacific Coast, finally being wrecked near Pacasmayo, Peru in 1895.
* SS "California", a British passenger cargo vessel built by Alexander Stephen & Sons in 1872 for the Anchor Line and scrapped in 1904. [http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=3213]
* SS "State of California", a British passenger cargo vessel built by Alexander Stephen & Sons in 1891 for the State of California Company and scrapped in 1925. [http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=3365]
* SS "California", a British passenger vessel built in 1902 by Caird & Company of Greenock for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and torpedoed on 17 October 1917. [http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=15331]
* SS "California", a British passenger vessel built in 1907 and torpedoed on 7 February 1917.
* SS "California", a British ocean liner built in 1923 and sunk by German air attack in 1943.
* SS "California", a US passenger ship built in 1928 aboard which the SS "California" strike took place.