SS Cambria was a British cargo-passenger steamship wrecked off the north-west of Ireland on 19 October 1870[1] with the loss of 178 lives.

The iron-hulled ship was built at the Robert Duncan & Co. shipyard in Port Glasgow for the Anchor Line, to operate on the trans-Atlantic route.

[2] Cambria departed New York on 8 October 1870 under the command of Captain John Carnighan, carrying a general cargo, a crew of 74, and 105 passengers,[3] on only her twelfth Atlantic crossing.

After climbing back into the boat and he found no one aboard except the corpse of a lady passenger dressed in black silk.

[3] Four lifeboats were found empty at the Giant's Causeway, while the stern of the ship drifted ashore at Islay, Scotland.