SS Halton R. Carey was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.

She was named after Halton R. Carey, who was lost at sea while he was an ordinary seaman on the tanker SS W.D.

Anderson, after she was torpedoed by German submarine U-504, on 22 February 1942, off Florida.

Halton R. Carey was laid down on 21 December 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2398, by J.A.

On 17 May 1948, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, in Wilmington, North Carolina.