SS Hodder was a freight vessel built for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1910.

[1] She was built by William Dobson and Company in Walker Yard for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway[2] and launched on 10 January 1910.

On 3 February 1925, Joseph Rockett, aged 53, was assisting in moving the steamer in the Goole Docks.

He stepped into the spiral of a wire rope, which became taut, and his right foot was torn off, above the ankle and his left leg was fractured.

It appeared that the same elephant had had an accident at Goole docks two years previously when it stepped into a railway wagon and part of the floor gave way.