SS ''Excelsior'' may refer to one of these ships:
* , an
Australian ferry, in service 1883–1919
*
SS ''Excelsior'' (1894), renamed SS ''Petrolite'', an
oil tanker
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crud ...
in service with the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
ExxonMobil, an American multinational oil and gas corporation presently based out of Texas, has had one of the longest histories of any company in its industry. A direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, the company traces its roo ...
from 1894 to 1917
* , a
Design 1027 ship
The Design 1027 ship (full name Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1027) was a steel- hulled cargo ship design approved for production by the United States Shipping Boards Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFT) in World War I. They were referred to a ...
built as by the
Oscar Daniels Company; named ''Excelsior'' from 1940 to 1942; scrapped in 1947
* (MC hull number 589, Type C3-S-A3), built by
Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard
Maryland Steel, in Sparrows Point, Maryland, US, was founded in 1887. It was acquired by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in 1916 and renamed as the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard. The shipyard was sold in 1997 to Baltimore Marine Industries I ...
; acquired by the
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...
and converted to USS ''Windsor'' (APA-55); sold for commercial service in 1947; scrapped in 1972
* (MC hull number 5891, Type C3-S-A3), built by Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard; acquired by the
United States Army
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for use as
troop ship
A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime. Troopships were often drafted from commercial shipping fleets, and were unable land troops directly on shore, typicall ...
; carried troops from England to Normandy for
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D ...
; sold for commercial service in 1946; scrapped in 1970
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