Several steamships have borne the name ''Selma'':
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SS ''Selma'' (1871) was a 1,172-ton cargo ship launched as the ''Elf'' on 19 August 1871, by
William Doxford & Sons,
Pallion, England. She was renamed several times, in 1900 ''Selma''. She was wrecked on 31 March 1901, while carrying a cargo of phosphate.
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SS ''Selma'' (1896) was a 3,480-ton cargo ship launched on 15 February 1896, by William Doxford & Sons, Pallion, England. Wrecked off
Cape Frio on 17 September 1910.
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SS ''Selma'' (1906) was a 1,629-ton cargo ship launched as the ''Cassiopeia'' on 2 November 1906, by
Nylands Verksted in
Oslo, Norway. Renamed ''Selma'' in 1915. Mined and sunk off
North Foreland
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on 25 October 1915.
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SS ''Selma'' (1919) was a 6,287-ton
concrete-constructed tanker built for the US government and completed in January 1920, by Ley in
Mobile, USA. Wrecked off
Galveston on 20 January 1922.
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SS ''Selma'' (1921) was a 1,746-ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1921, by
Howaldtswerke
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in
Kiel, Germany. Renamed ''Rhön'' in 1924. Scuttled off
Arendal
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, Norway on 8 September 1946.
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SS ''Selma'' (1924) was a 1,377-ton cargo ship launched as the ''Hamlet'' on 30 September 1924 by Howaldtswerke in Kiel, Germany. Renamed ''Selma'' in 1927. Exploded and sank in Oslo, Norway, on 11 January 1944.
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SS ''Selma'' (1937) was a 1,392-ton cargo ship launched on 23 September 1937 by
Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted
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The city of Fredrikstad was founded in 15 ...
in
Fredrikstad, Norway. Renamed four times, broken up in
Brindisi
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Histo ...
, Italy, in May 1971
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