SS is short for Steam Ship and used on civilian ships. NS would be Nuclear Ship and there was at least one civilian nuclear powered vessel.
USS is a prefix designation for a military ships that stand for "United States Ship".
HMS is a prefix designation for a British ships that stand for "His(Her) Majesty's Ship".
Other ship designations you may see are 'MS' which stands for 'Motor Ship' and 'M/V' which stands for 'Motor Vessel'.
it could stand for either steam ship or either sail ship.
This is what those terms stand for. SS stands for Steam Ship. USS stand for United State Ship. And HMS stands for His or Her Majesty's Ship.
It stands for steam ship.
SS = Steam Ship, HMS = His Majesties Ship, RMS = Royal Mail Ship, MV = Motor Vessel, RV = Research Vessel, NS = Nuclear Ship
Steam Ship.
SS Titanic means that Titanic was also called the SteamShip Titanic.
Steam Ship
Motor Ship (nautical vessel designation; also see SS for steam ship)
BB stands for battleship; SS is for merchant ships, and USS stands for United States Ship.
MS stands for Motor Ship, just as SS stands for Steam Ship, meaning the type of propulsion.
No, SS Constitution was sister ship of SS Independence. The closest ship to a sister ship of the SS United States was SS America, both designed by the same individual and in the same shipyard. All but the SS United States have passed on.
When a vessel has SS in front of it it usually means Steam Ship.