SS President Cleveland was an American passenger ship originally ordered by the United States Maritime Commission during World War II, as one of the Admiral W. S. Benson-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, and intended to be named USS Admiral D. W. Taylor (AP-128).

[1] The ship was laid down on 28 August 1944 at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in Alameda, California, but was cancelled on 16 December 1944.

[2] Redesigned for commercial passenger service, the ship was launched on 23 June 1946 with the name SS President Cleveland,[3] and she was completed in 1947.

[citation needed] On 22 or 23 July 1958 (sources disagree), President Cleveland was in the Pacific Ocean about 800 nautical miles (1,500 km; 920 mi) from California during a voyage from Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, to San Francisco when U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Lynne C. Quiggle, a passenger on board, disappeared.

[8] It is also seen at anchor in Tokyo Bay in the 1970 Japanese movie Hadaka no Jukyu-sai (Live Today, Die Tomorrow!).