SS Fordham Victory
Victory ship of the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SS Fordham Victory was built and operated as Victory cargo ship which operated as a cargo carrier in World War II. For the war she was operated by the Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company under charter with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration.
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Name | Fordham Victory |
Namesake | Fordham University |
Owner | War Shipping Administration |
Operator | Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company |
Ordered | as a Type VC2-S-AP2 hull, MCV hull 732[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California Kaiser Richmond No. 2 Yard |
Laid down | 13 January 1945 |
Launched | 24 February 1945 |
Commissioned | 21 March 1945 |
Identification | Official number: 247467 |
Fate | Scrapped July 1963 |
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Class and type | Victory ship |
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Length | 455 ft (139 m) |
Beam | 62 ft (19 m) |
Draft | 29 ft 2 in (8.89 m) |
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Speed | 15.5 kn (17.8 mph; 28.7 km/h) |
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Complement | 62 Merchant Marine and 28 US Naval Armed Guards |
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