SS Greece Victory
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The SS Greece Victory was the second Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. She was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on February 3, 1944, and completed on April 14, 1944. The ship’s United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2- S- AP3, hull number 2. SS Greece Victory served in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The new 10,500-ton Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. Liberty ships were designed to be used just for World War II. Victory ships were designed to last longer and serve the US Navy after the war. The Victory ship differed from a Liberty ship in that they were: faster, longer and wider, taller, had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure and had a long raised forecastle.
Typical Victory Ship. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | SS Greece Victory |
Namesake | Greece |
Owner | War Shipping Administration |
Operator | Grace Line |
Builder | California Shipbuilding Company, Los Angeles |
Laid down | December 7, 1943 |
Launched | February 3, 1944 |
Completed | April 14, 1944 |
Fate | Scrapped 1972 in Portland, Oregon. |
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 |
Speed | 16.5 knots |
Boats & landing craft carried | 4 Lifeboats |
Complement | 62 Merchant Marine and 28 US Naval Armed Guards |
Armament | |
Notes | [1] |
SS Greece Victory was christened by Mrs. Calypsn Picheon, wife of Ehas Pichnon, the Greece consul general on February 4, 1944. The launching of The SS Greece Victory splashed into the water of Terminal Island to enter the Pacific War.[2]