SS Stephen Hopkins was a United States Merchant Marine Liberty ship that served in World War II.

Her namesake was Stephen Hopkins, a Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island.

On September 27, 1942, en route from Cape Town to Surinam, she encountered the heavily armed German commerce raider Stier and her tender Tannenfels.

[3] So was US Merchant Marine Academy cadet Edwin Joseph O'Hara, who single-handedly fired the last shots from the ship's 4-inch gun.

Kenneth Martin Willett, commander of the Armed Guard detachment which manned the ship's 4-inch gun, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.