PSS Maitland was a Scottish built iron paddlesteamer, used in Australia as a passenger vessel.

On the sixth of May 1898 the Maitland was wrecked at Broken Bay in a storm.

On board were 32 crew including Captain Richard James Skinner and 30 passengers.

One of the survivors was a baby, Daisy Hammond, who lived to the age of 90, dying in 1988.

The "Maitland Gale" was responsible for the wreckage of other ships.