The SS Snefjeld was a steam merchant ship active from 1909 to 1940, serving in both world wars.

The boat was involved in a brief conflict during World War II, when it rescued several sailors from the sunken SS Thalia.

Snefjeld was completed in May 1901 at the yards of NV Scheepswerf Voorheen Jan Smit Czn, Alblasserdam.

She served with them for eight years, being transferred to Stoomvaart Mij Nederlandsche Lloyd, Rotterdam in 1909, when she was renamed Ottoland.

She also made several transatlantic crossings, including with the Halifax to UK convoy HX 61, where she transported a cargo of pit props.

She arrived at the convoy assembly point at Sydney, Nova Scotia from Caraquet, New Brunswick carrying a cargo of 719 standards of timber and bound for London.

[1] The convoy left Sydney on 5 October but later came under attack from several U-boats successfully utilising wolf pack tactics.

One of the ships lost was the SS Thalia, a Greek merchant which was torpedoed and sunk on 19 October by Otto Kretschmer's U-99.

On 21 October they made contact with a lifeboat containing 29 survivors from the SS Port Gisborne, which had been torpedoed over a week previously.