SS Salvador Brau was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.

She was named after Salvador Brau, a journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, historian, and sociologist.

He was designated the official historian of Puerto Rico in 1903, by the first American-appointed governor William Henry Hunt.

Salvador Brau was laid down on 8 November 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1543, by J.A.

On 1 June 1948, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, in Beaumont, Texas.