SS Comet

SS Comet may also refer to one of several commercial passenger steamships:

• PS Comet, a paddle steamer built in 1811 in Port Glasgow that established the first successful commercial passenger service in Europe; wrecked in 1820 near Oban
• PS Comet (1821), a paddle steamer built in 1821 at Dumbarton in succession to the 1811 vessel; sank in a collision in 1825 with the loss of about 70 lives ^[1]
• steam packet built in Liverpool in 1825 and later renamed Lucifer; she was a hulk from 1875 ^[2]
• Cleveland, Ohio; carried cargo and passengers on the Great Lakes; wrecked 1875 in Lake Superior
  with a cargo of silver ore
• Comet (sternwheeler), an American steamboat in operation from 1871 to 1900 in the state of Washington

or one of several Type C2 ships built for the United States Maritime Commission:

• Federal Shipbuilding; transferred to the United States Navy as Castor-class general stores issue ship
  USS Pollux (AKS-2); wrecked and lost in Newfoundland in 1942
• Lassen-class ammunition ship
  USS Shasta (AE-6); scrapped in 1972
• Moore Dry Dock as SS Comet; transferred to the United States Navy as a La Salle-class transport
  ; sold for commercial use in 1948; scrapped in 1970

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