SS Elmira Victory
Typical Victory Ship.
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United States | |
Name | SS Elmira Victory |
Namesake | Elmira, New York |
Owner | War Shipping Administration |
Operator | Alaska SS company |
Builder | Oregon Shipbuilding Company |
Laid down | March 25, 1944 |
Launched | May 12, 1944 |
Completed | May 31, 1944 |
Identification | IMO number: 5102384 |
Fate | Scrapped |
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] |
SS Elmira Victory was a
Victory ships were designed to supersede the earlier
World War II
SS Elmira Victory has had the dangerous job of delivering 6,000 pounds of
After the war in 1949, Elmira Victory was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at the Hudson River and later transferred to Suisun Bay National Defense Reserve Fleet.
Korean War
In 1950, Elmira Victory was put back in service for the Korean War as a Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) charter for the United States Navy operated by the American Export Lines. Elmira Victory made trips between 1950 and 1951, helping American forces engaged against North Korean aggression in South Korea.[8][9][10][11]
Vietnam War
Elmira Victory serviced in Vietnam War from November 1966 to March 1967. Elmira Victory was hit by enemy gun fire while waiting to offload ammunition in
In 1993 she was scrapped.[13]
Honors
Elmira Victory earned
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.
- ^ shipbuildinghistory.com Merchant ships Victory ships
- ^ "Liberty Ships and Victory Ships --Setting the Stage". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
- ^ The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia, Victory ships
- ^ Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil - The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat, By Rear Adm. Worrall Reed Carter
- ^ War Diary, 12/26/44 to 1/31/45
- ^ United States Merchant Marine Casualties of World War II, rev ed. By Robert M. Browning, Jr., page 356
- ^ Korean War Educator, Merchant Marine, Accounts of the Korean War
- ^ Small United States and United Nations Warships in the Korean War, page 191, By Paul M. Edwards
- ^ Mariners, The Website Of The Mariners Mailing List., Victory Ships
- ^ shipbuildinghistory.com Merchant ships Victory ships
- ^ usmm.org Vietnam
- ^ mariners-l.co.uk, Victory Ships