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SS Mexico is the name of several ships.

SS Mexico, a sailing ship, a barque that wrecked in 1837 at Hempstead Beach, Near Rockaway, Long Island, New York, USA^[1]^[2]^[3]
SS Mexico, a ship in service in 1849 on the U.S. West Coast ^[4]
SS Mexico (1851), a U.S. sidewheel steamer built in New York in 1851 as a river steamer, that served in the U.S. Civil War on both sides, as the CSS General Bragg for the Confederates, and captured by the Union in 1862, becoming the USS General Bragg.^[5]
SS Mexico (1890), a British screw steamer built in Belfast in 1890, that was wrecked in 1895 at Belle Isle, Newfoundland ^[6]
SS Mexico (1898), a ship of the Ward Line
SS Mexico (1906), a ship of the Ward Line
SS Mexico (1933), a ship of the Ward Line

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^ "National Register of Historic Places in Nassau County New York". Picryl.
^ Eugene L. Armburster (June 1914). Long Island: Its Early Days and Development (PDF). History of Long Island. Vol. XXIX. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 31. Eagle Library 182. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 August 2020.
^ H. Sewel (2 January 1837), Dreadful Wreck of the Mexico on Hempstead Beach, 63.550.95, archived from the original on 25 June 2023
^ Bailey Millard (1924). History of the San Francisco Bay Region. Vol. 2. The American Historical Society. p. 103. historyofsanfran02mill. Archived from the original on 7 July 2010.
^ "General Bragg (side-wheel ram)". Naval History and Heritage Command. U.S. Navy. 10 July 2015.
^ "SS Mexico (+1895)". WreckSite.eu. 2019. 153264.

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