A number of ships have been named Sierra including:

Merchant ships , an American trans-Pacific passenger liner, which also served as USS Sierra Sierra (1944), an American cargo ship between 1947 and 1961, formerly United States Navy attack cargo ship

Whaling ships

Sierra (1960), a whaling vessel between 1960-1980 (originally named Robert W. Vinke (AM-4)). Bought and converted by private owners into a whale factory/catcher hybrid vessel in 1967-68, pirate whaler between 1968-1979, sunk in Lisbon harbor on February 6th, 1980 with no casualties.

Naval ships , the former merchant ship Sierra, built 1900, in commission as a troop transport from 1918 to 1919 , a destroyer tender in commission from 1944 to 1994 , a ship class of the Mexican Navy , a Russian class of nuclear-powered attack submarines

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