SS Lincoln was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1883.

In the winter this could be obstructed by ice in the River Elbe and on 20 January 1893 she took seven hours to complete the distance from Cuxhaven to Hamburg.

[3] In 1896 the crew were sacked by the railway company for refusing to discharge cargo at Hamburg.

On 20 January 1911 she went ashore on Haisborough Sands while on a voyage from Antwerp to Grimsby in thick fog.

She was sunk on 2 February 1917 in the Atlantic Ocean west of Cape Penas, Spain (43°44′N 6°16′W / 43.733°N 6.267°W / 43.733; -6.267) by SM U-67.