SS Samuel Ashe was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.

She was named after Samuel Ashe the ninth Governor of the US state of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798.

Samuel Ashe was laid down 17 July 1942, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 164, by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina: she was launched 17 September 1942, sponsored by Miss Shirley Jean Beasley, the daughter of E.O.

[4] Among her missions was repatriating part of the US 1269th Engineer Combat Battalion stateside from Antwerp in August 1945.

[5] On 6 January 1948, she was laid up in the James River Reserve Fleet, Jones Point, New York.