SS ''Philadelphia'' may refer to:
* SS ''Philadelphia'', a small
steamship
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of 2,499 tons built by
William Cramp & Sons for the
Red D Line in 1885; service was between Venezuela and Caribbean ports and the Port of New York.
* , the name from 1901 to 1918 and 1919 to 1923 for an
ocean liner
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Ca ...
originally named SS ''Paris''; served as USS ''Yale'' in Spanish–American War (1898) and as USS ''Harrisburg'' (ID-1633) during World War I (1918–19) for the
United States Navy
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* , a
container ship
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of
Sea-Land Service
SeaLand, a division of the Maersk Group, is an American intra-regional container shipping company headquartered in Miramar, Florida with representation in 29 countries across the Americas. The company offers ocean and intermodal services using ...
; rebuilt from the former USS ''General A. W. Brewster'' (AP-155), a World War II transport ship of the United States Navy
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