SS Panama Victory
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The SS Panama Victory was a Victory ship built during World War II. She was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on April 3, 1944 and completed on May 30, 1944. She was built in 115 days under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. The ship’s United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number 9 (V-9). SS Panama Victory served in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. SS Panama Victory was ninth of the new 10,500-ton class ship to be known as Victory ships. Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. Liberty ships were designed to be used just for WW2. 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. Engine was made by Joshua Hendy Iron Works Inc. of Sunnyvale, California.
The second ship, with V-9 on the hull, is the SS Panama Victory. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | SS Panama Victory |
Namesake | Panama |
Owner | War Shipping Administration |
Operator | Marine Transport Line |
Builder | California Shipbuilding Company, Los Angeles |
Laid down | February 5, 1944 |
Launched | April 3, 1944 |
Completed | May 30, 1944 |
Fate | Sold, 1946 |
Netherlands | |
Name | SS Amsteldijk |
Owner | Holland America Line |
Operator | Holland America Line |
Renamed | SS Amsteldyk, 1954 |
Fate | Sold, 1968 |
Panama | |
Name | SS Helena |
Owner | Progressive Mariner S.A. of Panama |
Operator | Progressive Mariner S.A. |
Fate | Scrapped in Taiwan, 1973 |
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 Panama Victory was christened on April 3, 1944 by Mrs. Jimenez wife of ambassador Don Enrique A. Jimenez of Panama. The SS Panama Victory was one of a long line of Victory ships to leave the Calship building. The launching of The SS Panama Victory splashed into the water of Terminal Island to enter the Pacific War.[2]