Scrapped at Hualien, Formosa in 1967, after hitting a mine.
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
1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber gun
1 × 3 inch (76 mm)/50 caliber gun
8 × 20 mm Oerlikon
Notes
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The SS Baton Rouge was a cargo Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. The Baton Rouge (MCV-846) was a type VC2-S-AP2 Victory ship built by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards. The Maritime Administration cargo ship was the 846rd ship built. Her keel was laid on June 21, 1945. She was launched on August 22, 1945, and completed on September 24, 1945. The 10,600-ton ship was constructed for the Maritime Commission. The American Export Line and later the Isthmian Steamship Company operated her under the United States Merchant Marine act for the War Shipping Administration.[2]
Victory ships were designed to supersede the earlier Liberty Ships. Unlike Liberty ships, Victory ships were designed to serve the US Navy after the war[3] and also last longer. The Victory ship differed from a Liberty ship in that they were: faster, longer and wider, taller, and had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure. They also had a long raised forecastle.
The SSBatonRouge was a cargo Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. The BatonRouge (MCV-846) was a type VC2-S-AP2...
Minh Thanh Road John Paul Jones Prairie Colorado Duc Co Long Tan SSBatonRougeVictory Amarillo Byrd Sunset Beach Seward Thayer, Irving and Thayer II Attleboro...
Vietnamese front line was now just 26 mi (42 km) from downtown Saigon. The victory at Xuân Lộc, which had drawn many South Vietnamese troops away from the...
Potomac Books. ISBN 978-1-59797-304-5. Woodruff, Mark (2000). Unheralded Victory. Harper Collins. p. 283. ISBN 0-00-472540-9. Harbury, Jennifer (2005)....
Cambodian government of Lon Nol in its struggle against the communist Khmer Rouge. The area in which the bombing took place was expanded to include most of...
surrounded by the Khmer Rouge and totally dependent on aerial resupply through Pochentong Airport. With a Khmer Rougevictory imminent, the United States...
p. 16. Nguyen, pp. 18–20. Nguyen, p. 24. Nguyen, p. 27. Victory in Vietnam, p. 371. Victory in Vietnam, p. 380. Nguyen, fn. 147 Hoang, p. 24. Ang, p...
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against allied vessels, including the 23 August 1966 attack on the SSBatonRougeVictory.: 44–5 In August 1966 attackers sank an RVNN minesweeper, killing...
PAVN/VC and seven Marines killed. 23 August The U.S. merchant vessel SSBatonRougeVictory was sunk by a VC naval mine on the Lòng Tàu River, about 22 miles...
surrounded by the Khmer Rouge and totally dependent on aerial resupply through Pochentong Airport. With a Khmer Rougevictory imminent, the US government...
North Vietnamese lacked. The Americans claimed LZ X-Ray as a tactical victory, citing a 10:1 kill ratio. The second engagement involved the 2nd Battalion...
influence over the Khmer Rouge.: 708 Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, fell to the Khmer Rouge in April 1975. Under Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge would kill 1–3 million...
Khmer Rouge took control of the capital Phnom Penh ousting the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic. After the Khmer Rouge seized the U.S. merchant vessel SS Mayaguez...
goals entailed in American foreign policy and the military's goal of total victory were simply not reconcilable. The conundrum had then become how to defeat...
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radioed a warning to Olds. Though he did not score a victory himself, James witnessed the victory made by his wingman, Captain Everett T. Raspberry: At...
Penn Nouth as the Prime Minister) and Khmer Rouge leaders within Cambodia, chief of whom was Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan. China severed diplomatic...
examples of Victory troopship are: SS Aiken Victory, SS Chanute Victory, SS Cody Victory, SS Colby Victory, SS Cranston Victory, SS Gustavus Victory, SS Hagerstown...
battle to a close. In the aftermath, the North Vietnamese proclaimed a victory at Khe Sanh, while US forces claimed that they had withdrawn, as the base...
transport ships: SS American Challenger SS Boo Heung Pioneer SS Green Forest SS Green Port USNS Greenville VictorySS Pioneer Contender SS Pioneer Commander...
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total to 379 victories which is still higher than the 345 losses shown in USSR records. The Soviets claimed about 1,100 air-to-air victories and 335 combat...
: 127 : 193 During 1968, Cambodia's indigenous communist movement, labeled Khmer Rouge (Red Khmers) by Sihanouk, began an insurgency to overthrow the government...
another part was controlled by South Vietnam. The battle resulted in a victory for China over South Vietnam. Consequently, the PRC occupied the portion...
starting at 18:00 on Christmas Day.: 324 26 December - 5 January 1970 The SS Badger State under contract to Military Sea Transportation Service and carrying...
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