SS ''Columbia'' may refer to: * , a paddle steamer built by Robert Steele & Company and eventually wrecked * , an iron steamship built by

Archibald Denny Sir Archibald Denny, 1st Baronet FRSE LLD (1860–1935), was a Scottish naval architect who was owner of the huge Clyde shipbuilding company of William Denny and Brothers and was granted a baronetcy in 1913, thereby giving birth to the Denny baro ...

, Dumbarton * , a passenger/cargo vessel built by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow * , the first vessel to have electricity * SS ''Columbia'' (1889), a German Hamburg America Line

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purchased by Spain for use in the Spanish–American War as the auxiliary cruiser , then returned to commercial service and later purchased by Russia for use in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 as the auxiliary cruiser ''Terek'' * , a steam trawler built by Mackie & Thomson Govan * , a British mail ship sold to France and sunk in World War I * , a Canadian screw-driven tugboat * , an American excursion steamship * , a Scottish passenger/cargo vessel originally named HMS ''Columbella'' and subsequently named ''Moreas'', scrapped in Venice 1929 * , a passenger/cargo vessel built by New York Shipbuilding, Camden, NJ as ''Dorothy Alexander'', then ''President'' then ''Columbia'' for Alaska Steamship Co; World War II WSA troop transport serving Alaska * , a passenger/cargo vessel built by Russell & Co Port Glasgow * SS ''Columbia'' (1913), originally ''Katoomba'', Australian liner & troop ship in WW I & II, renamed ''Columbia'' in 1949 for Greek Lines, scrapped 1959. * SS ''Columbia'' (1914), a British ocean liner renamed ''Belgic'' in 1917, then ''Belgenland'' again in 1923, before becoming the American ship ''Columbia'' in 1935, scrapped 1936 * , a Canadian steam tugboat serving Lower Arrow Lake until 1948 * , a Dutch passenger/cargo ship of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Stoomboot-Maatschappij, sunk by torpedo 1943.

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