SS Berlin was a freight vessel built for the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company in 1891.

In 1914 she was in Copenhagen at the outbreak of the First World War and it was decided to leave her there for safety.

However, pressure for tonnage required that she leave that port in 1916 under disguise and she crossed the North Sea to Hull, where she was renamed River Ribble.

On 29 November 1931, River Ribble collided with the British steamer Selby at Hamburg, Germany, and was beached at Altona.

[4][5] River Ribble was sold to J.J. King of Garston and scrapped in September 1933 at Gateshead.