SS Tufts Victory
California Shipbuilding Company
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Tufts Victory |
Namesake | Tufts University |
Owner | Maritime Commission |
Operator | War Shipping Administration through American Mail Line |
Builder | California Shipbuilding Company, Los Angeles |
Laid down | 11 January 1945 |
Launched | 2 March 1945 |
Completed | 28 March 1945 |
Identification | Official number: 247512 |
Fate | Wrecked on 23 September 1969 |
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, by Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., Essington |
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 Tufts Victory was a class of
Tufts Victory was one of the new 10,500-ton class ship to be known as Victory ships. Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier
World War II
Tufts Victory served as a troopship taking troops to and from
Post war
After the war, she was laid up at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in 1947. In 1947 she was sold the Rotterdam Lloyd company (became Nedlloyd later) of Rotterdam and renamed the SS Samarinda. In 1962 she was sold to the Far Eastern Navigation Corporation of Keelung, Taiwan and renamed SS Chun Lee. In 1964 she was rename SS Cherry Victory. On 23 September 1969 Cherry Victory ran aground at Sumatra in the Strait of Malacca at 5°10′12″N 97°16′48″E / 5.1700°N 97.280°E. She as refloated, but not worth repairing, she was scrapped at Keelung in 1970. [8][9][10][11] [12]
SS Samarinda (1912)
The first
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.
- ^ "National parks, Reading 2: Victory Ships".
- ^ "Victory Ships".
- ^ "Troopships of World War II". www.armed-guard.com.
- ^ "marad.dot.gov, Troop s ships" (PDF).
- ^ "1945 Troop Ship Crossings - July to December". www.ww2troopships.com.
- ^ "Troop Ship of World War II, April 1947, Page 356-357" (PDF).
- ^ "TUFTS VICTORY". vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov.
- ^ "TEI | Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History | ID: f1881x54h | Tufts Digital Library". dl.tufts.edu.
- ^ "vicshipsT". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
- ^ "Samarinda= Samarinda". Ships Nostalgia.
- ^ "SAMARINDA - IMO 5072436 - ShipSpotting.com - Ship Photos and Ship Tracker". www.shipspotting.com.
- ^ "Civilian Ships--Samarinda (Dutch Freighter, 1912)". www.ibiblio.org.
- ^ "Civilian Ships--Samarinda (Dutch Freighter, 1912)". www.shipscribe.com.
- ^ US Navy, S Samarinda (1912
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: Victory Ships alphabetical list War II
- Victory Cargo Ships Oregon Shipyards Record Breakers Page 2