The SS Raven, sometimes also referred to as the SY Raven, is a steam barge ordered by the Furness Railway for use on the lake of Windermere in the English Lake District, where she has spent her entire working life.

[1][2][3] The Raven was built in 1871, and was originally used to carry cargo from the Furness Railway terminus at Lakeside station to houses, hotels and businesses around the lake, and to the railway warehouses at Ambleside and Bowness-on-Windermere.

In 1922 Raven was withdrawn from service and sold to Vickers Armstrong of Barrow-in-Furness for testing mine-laying equipment on the lake.

She was bought for preservation in 1956 by George Pattinson, the founder of the Windermere Steamboat Museum.

Her hull is of rivetted iron and she retains her original single cylinder steam engine.