SS Luxembourg Victory
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SS Luxembourg Victory was a Victory ship built for the United States during World War II. She was launched by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation on February 28, 1944, and was completed on April 5, 1944. The ship's US Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number 90 (V-90). She was built in 101 days under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. The Maritime Commission turned her over to a civilian contractor, the Lykes Brothers SS Company, for operation until the end of World War II hostilities. She was operated under the US Merchant Marine Act for the War Shipping Administration.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | SS Luxembourg Victory |
Namesake | Luxembourg |
Owner | War Shipping Administration |
Operator | Lykes Brothers Steamship Company |
Builder | Oregon Shipbuilding Company Portland |
Laid down | December 26, 1943 |
Launched | February 28, 1944 |
Completed | April 5, 1944 |
Honors and awards | Battle Stars |
Fate | Sold to private company in 1951 |
United States | |
Name | SS Pennsylvania |
Owner | States Steamship Company of Tacoma, Washington |
Fate | Sank January 9, 1952 in the North Pacific, crew lost. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship |
Tonnage | |
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 (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 4 lifeboats |
Complement | 62 Merchant Marine and 28 US Naval Armed Guards |
Armament |
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Notes | [1] |
Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty ships. Liberty ships were designed to be used solely for World War II, while 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, wider, and taller, had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure and had a long raised forecastle.
SS Luxembourg Victory serviced in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the last months of World War II in the Pacific War.[2] Luxembourg Victory took supplies to support the Battle of the Philippines as part of Task Group 30.8.