SS Attleboro Victory
VC2-S-AP2 type Victory ship
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Attleboro Victory |
Namesake | Attleboro, Massachusetts |
Owner | War Shipping Administration |
Operator | Stockard Steamship Corporation |
Builder | Baltimore, Maryland |
Yard number | V-642 |
Laid down | 26 January 1945 |
Launched | 16 March 1945 |
Completed | 10 April 1945 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1976 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship |
Tonnage | 7612 GRT, 4,553 NRT |
Displacement | 15,200 tons |
Length | 455 ft (139 m) |
Beam | 62 ft (19 m) |
Draught | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
Installed power | 8,500 shp (6,300 kW) |
Propulsion | HP & LP turbines geared to a single 20.5-foot (6.2 m) propeller |
Speed | 16.5 knots |
Boats & landing craft carried | 4 Lifeboats |
Complement | 62 Merchant Marine and 28 US Naval Armed Guards |
Armament |
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Notes | [1] |
SS Attleboro Victory was a
Attleboro Victory was one of many new 10,500-ton class ships to be known as
World War II
Attleboro Victory was operated by the
War relief and Seacowboys
In 1946, after World War II, Attleboro Victory was converted to a livestock ship, also called a cowboy ship. From 1945 to 1947, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Brethren Service Committee of the Church of the Brethren sent livestock to war-torn countries. These "seagoing cowboys" made about 360 trips on 73 different ships. The Heifers for Relief project was started by the Church of the Brethren in 1942; in 1953, this became Heifer International.[7] Attleboro Victory made five trips moving horses, heifers, and mules, as well as a some chicks, rabbits, and goats. Her trips were to Greece, Crete, Poland and Czechoslovakia.[8][9][10][11]
After the war relief in 1948, she was sold to the United States Lines of New York and renamed SS American Attorney.
Korean War
American Attorney served as a merchant marine ship supplying goods for the Korean War. About 75 percent of the personnel serving in the Korean War were delivered by the merchant marine ships. American Attorney transported goods, mail, food, and other supplies. About 90 percent of the cargo was moved by merchant marine ships to the war zone. American Attorney made trips between 1951 and 1952. American Attorney serviced in the Inchon-Seoul Operation, App E, Task Organization of Joint Task Force Seven.[12]
Post-war service
After the Korean War, in 1956, she was sold to Transyork Shipping Corporation in New York and renamed SS Transyork.
In 1957, she was sold to Cia Naviera Continental of Monrovia, Liberia.
In 1959, she was sold to Prudential Steamship Corporation of New York and given her original name SS Attleboro Victory.
In 1968, the United States Department of Commerce in New York leased her back to Prudential.
In 1970, she was laid up in the James River as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet. She was scrapped at Brownsville, Texas six years later.[13]
See also
- List of Victory ships
- Liberty ship
- Type C1 ship
- Type C2 ship
- Type C3 ship
References
- ^ Babcock & Wilcox (April 1944). "Victory Ships". Marine Engineering and Shipping Review.
- ^ "Victory Ships by shipyard". Retrieved 2006-08-10.
- ^ Mariners The Website Of The Mariners Mailing List. Victory Ships
- ^ FLANAGAN: Cape traffic plan a day dream, Nov. 19, 2001
- ^ United States Merchant Marine Casualties of World War II, By Robert M. Browning, Jr.
- ^ transports of delight, SS Attleboro Victory at sea
- ^ Heifer International
- ^ Sea going cowboys
- ^ seagoingcowboys, In Memorium [sic], Posted on April 1, 2017
- ^ Seagoing cowboys report
- ^ Cowboys sing carols on the Attleboro Victory after delivering mules to Crete in 1946.
- ^ Sea Services in the Korean War 1950-1953 PCN 19000412100_2.pdf Marines.mil The Sea Services in the Korean War 1950-1953, The Pusan Perimeter, Ch. 6, The Perimeter on Hill 342, The Inchon-Seoul Operation, App E, Task Organization of Joint Task Force Seven. Page 6
- ^ Mariners Victory Ships