SS Lincoln Victory

Wilmington, California in 1944.
History
United States
Name	SS Lincoln Victory
Namesake	Lincoln, Nebraska-Abraham Lincoln
Owner	War Shipping Administration
Operator	Eastern SS Lines
Builder	California Shipbuilding Company, Los Angeles
Laid down	February 26, 1944
Launched	April 27, 1944
Completed	June 15, 1944
Fate	Sold to the Netherlands, 1947
Netherlands
Name	SS Aardijk
Operator	Holland America Line
Renamed	SS Aardyk, 1954
Fate	Sold to Taiwan, 1962
Taiwan
Name	SS Sian Yung
Owner	Chinese Maritime Trust Company
Fate	Partially sunk and abandoned, 6 December 1970; refloated and scuttled in deeper waters, 11 January 1972
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	1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber gun 1 × 3 inch (76 mm)/50 caliber gun 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon(a Victory ship)
Notes	[1]

The SS Lincoln Victory was a

The SS Lincoln Victory served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. SS Lincoln Victory, along with 96 other Victory ships, were converted to troopships to bring the US soldiers home as part of Operation Magic Carpet. She departed the so-called Cigarette Camps in Europe to bring troops home. She had two notable Atlantic crossings. On Dec. 17, 1945, she steamed out of Le Havre, France with 1,535 troops arriving in Boston on Dec. 27, 1945. In this trip, she carried the 93rd quartermaster railroad company, the 3914th quartermaster gas supply company, and the 783rd railway shop battalion and transportation corps. In February 1946, she departed from Bremerhaven, Germany, returning soldiers to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Private use

After the war, on May 27, 1947, the Lincoln Victory was sold to the

See also

• List of Victory ships
• Liberty ship
• Type C1 ship
• Type C2 ship
• Type C3 ship

References

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]