The ship that transports the T. rex to San Diego in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is the S.S. Venture. InGen uses the cargo vessel to move the captured adult male Tyrannosaurus from Isla Sorna to the mainland.
Peter Ludlow intends to display the dinosaur as the centerpiece of a proposed Jurassic Park facility in San Diego. During the voyage, the ship’s crew loses control of the situation, and the Venture arrives at the harbor on a collision course. Its damaged, apparently abandoned appearance creates one of the film’s most memorable suspense scenes before the T. rex escapes into the city.
The name is also a deliberate nod to King Kong. In the 1933 film, Kong is transported from Skull Island toward New York aboard a ship called the Venture. After the San Diego incident, the S.S. Venture is used again to return the adult and infant T. rex to Isla Sorna under naval escort.