SS Liberty was a freight vessel built for the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited in 1888.

[1] She was built by Earle's Shipbuilding for the Co-operative Wholesale Society and launched on 13 January 1890 by Mrs. Taylor of Manchester.

[2] In December 1891 she went ashore in Cuxhaven, but was floated free and continued to Hamburg.

[3] On Wednesday 14 February 1894, she rescued the Wilson liner SS Plato which had sprung a leak in a hurricane and was in danger of sinking.

[4] On 29 November 1901 she collided off Brough Haven with the sloop Friend which was carrying a cargo of barley.