SS Alma was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1894.

[1] The ship was built by J and G Thomson of Clydebank and launched on 4 October 1894[2] by Evelyn Donaldson, Cochno House, Duntocher.

In 1899 she picked up Thomas Slattery and James Montague, seamen from the Boadicea of Bridgwater which had foundered off Lundy on 13 January 1899.

With two others they had built a raft, and spent three hours in the stormy sea, but the two others were washed off.

In 1916 she was purchased by P N Heath, Shanghai who sold her in 1917 to M Matsou and U Matsumoto, Japan who renamed her Shokiku Maru No.