USNS Adelphi
| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | SS Adelphi Victory |
| Builder | Permanente Metals Yard No. 2, Richmond, California |
| Laid down | 22 April 1945 |
| Launched | 2 June 1945 |
| In service | 27 June 1945 |
| Out of service | 1984 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5002613 |
| Fate | 1993 scrapped in China |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type | Type VC2-S-AP2 Victory ship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 455 ft (139 m) |
| Beam | 62 ft (19 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
USNS Adelphi (T-AG-181) was one of 12 ships scheduled to be acquired by the
Emergency Shipbuilding program
for World War II.
For post World War II work she was operated by Marine Transport Line of San Francisco. After her post war duties in 1947 she was laid up in the
Reserve Fleet and reactivated for the Vietnam War. The ship operated under commercial charter carrying supplies to Vietnam under her original name, SS Adelphi Victory. In 1973 the SS Adelphi Victory was laid up in Suisun Bay, California, as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet. In 1993 she was scrapped in China.[2]
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Boulder Victory class |
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Greenville Victory class |
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Lt. James E. Robinson class |
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