SS Carroll Victory
 Typical Victory ship
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | SS Carroll Victory |
| Namesake | Carroll, Iowa |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | Lykes Brothers Steamship Company |
| Builder | California Shipbuilding Company, Los Angeles |
| Laid down | 28 March 1944 |
| Launched | 13 June 1944 |
| Completed | 31 August 1944 |
| Fate | Transferred to United States Coast Guard, 1949 |
 United States | |
| Name | Carroll Victory |
| Operator | United States Coast Guard |
| Identification | IMO number: 5065043 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1994 |
| 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) |
| Draft | 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] |
The SS Carroll Victory was the twenty-seventh
US Navy after the war. The Victory ships differed from Liberty ships in that they were faster, longer and wider, taller, had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure, and had a long raised forecastle
.
From 1945 to 1947 the
Kavalla, Greece. From Greece she steamed to Africa and picked up a new load of horses, then steamed on to Haifa in Palestine. Carroll Victory moved horses, heifers, and mules as well as a some chicks, rabbits, and goats.[5][6][7]
In 1948 she was operated by the
US Coast Guard ship. After completing her US Coast Guard work in she was moved to the James River in Virginia as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet
.
Korean War
SS Carroll Victory served as merchant marine ship supplying goods for the
Communist aggression in South Korea. In 1952 she was returned to the National Defense Reserve Fleet.[8][9]
In 1994 she was scrapped at Alang, India.[10]
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.
- ^ Iowa People And Places Give Names To 32 New Ships Of Navy, Merchant Marine
- ^ Heifer International
- ^ photo 1946 horses and hay bales on Carroll Victory
- ^ Sea going cowboys of the Carroll Victory
- ^ seagoingcowboys.com, The Seagoing Cowboys, Delivering hope to a war-torn world
- ^ heifer.org, Cowboys at Christmas
- ^ Korean War Educator, Merchant Marine, Accounts of the Korean War
- ^ Small United States and United Nations Warships in the Korean War, By Paul M. Edwards
- ^ Mariners The Website Of The Mariners Mailing List. Victory Ships
Sources
- Sawyer, L.A. and W.H. Mitchell. Victory ships and tankers: The history of the ‘Victory’ type cargo ships and of the tankers built in the United States of America during World War II, Cornell Maritime Press, 1974, 0-87033-182-5.
- United States Maritime Commission: [1]
- Victory Cargo Ships [2]
