SS Trent

History
UK
Name:	Trent
Owner:	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Builder:	Robert Napier and Sons
Launched:	18 September 1899
Fate:	Scrapped 1922
General characteristics
Tonnage:	5,525 GRT
Length:	410 feet
Installed power:	steam engine

SS Trent was a steamship built at Glasgow in 1899 and used as a mailship in the North Atlantic before being requisitioned as a depot ship by the British Admiralty in 1914. It rescued the crew of the airship America in their failed first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air in 1910.

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