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The shapes of ships are multi-scale in SAR imagery due to multi-resolution imaging modes and their various shapes. Conventional ship detection methods are highly dependent on the statistical models of sea clutter or the extracted features, and their robustness need to be strengthened. Being an automatic learning representation, the RetinaNet object detector, one kind of deep learning model, is proposed to crack this obstacle. Firstly, feature pyramid networks (FPN) are used to extract multi-scale features for both ship classification and location. Then, focal loss is used to address the class imbalance and to increase the importance of the hard examples during training. There are 86 scenes of Chinese Gaofen-3 Imagery at four resolutions, i.e., 3 m, 5 m, 8 m, and 10 m, used to evaluate our approach. Two Gaofen-3 images and one Constellation of Small Satellite for Mediterranean basin Observation (Cosmo-SkyMed) image are used to evaluate the robustness. The experimental results reveal that (1) RetinaNet not only can efficiently detect multi-scale ships but also has a high detection accuracy; (2) compared with other object detectors, RetinaNet achieves more than a 96% mean average precision (mAP). 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