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SS ''Neckar'' may refer to one of the following
North German Lloyd Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL; North German Lloyd) was a German shipping company. It was founded by Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann in Bremen on 20 February 1857. It developed into one of the most important German shipping companies of th ...
steamships: * , passenger ship in service 1874–1896; scrapped at Genoa, 1896. * , passenger ship in service 1901–1917; seized by United States; served as
troopship 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 to land troops directly on shore, typic ...
USS ''Antigone'' (ID-3007); served as SS ''Potomac'' for
United States Lines United States Lines was an organization of the United States Shipping Board's (USSB) Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC), created to operate German liners seized by the United States in 1917. The ships were owned by the USSB and all finances of t ...
, 1921–1922; scrapped at Baltimore, 1927. * ,
cargo ship A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's List of seas, seas and Ocean, oceans each year, handling the bulk of international trade. ...
in service from 1927, renamed ''Sperrbrecher 8'' in 1939, heavily damaged at Brest in 1944 and scuttled. {{DEFAULTSORT:Neckar, ss Ship names