SS Navajo Victory
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SS Navajo Victory was a cargo ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. It was completed by the California Shipbuilding Company on June 30, 1944 and served in the Pacific during World War II. Victory Ship class vessels were designed to replace the Liberty Ship class. Victory Ships were designed to last longer and to serve the US Navy after the war. The Victory Ships were faster, longer, wider, and taller than the Liberty ships, and they had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure as well as a long raised forecastle.[2]
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Typical Victory Ship. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Navajo Victory |
Namesake | Navajo City, New Mexico and Navajo, Arizona |
Owner | War Shipping Administration |
Operator | Luckenbach Line Company 1944, American Mail Line 1966 |
Builder | California Shipbuilding Company, Los Angeles |
Laid down | March 5, 1944 |
Launched | May 2, 1944 |
Completed | June 30, 1944 |
Identification | IMO number: 5247940 |
Fate | Scrapped in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 1985 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship |
Tonnage | 7,612 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] |
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