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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SS Elmira Victory was a Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. It was built and launched by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation on May 12, 1944 and completed on May 31, 1944. The ship's United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3 and hull number 105 (1021). The ship was Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation's 21st victory ship. The Maritime Commission turned it over for Merchant navy operation to a civilian contractor, the Isthmian Steamship Company under the United States Merchant Marine act for the War Shipping Administration. She was named after the city of Elmira, New York.[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.[4]
SSElmiraVictory was a Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. It was built and launched by the Oregon Shipbuilding...
first week in December. On 8 December, she escorted Boulder Victory (AK-227) and SSElmiraVictory to Kossol Passage in the Palaus. After fueling, she sailed...
USMS North Star III (originally named MV Emory Victory (MCV-654)) was a Victory ship built in 1945. The ship was transferred to the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
finally crashing alongside the ship. SS Hobbs Victory's uncontrollable fires lead to her abandonment. SS Hobbs Victory exploded and sank the following morning...
SS Bluefield Victory, ammunition cargo SSElmiraVictory, ammunition cargo SS Iran Victory, ammunition cargo SS Durham Victory, ammunition cargo SS Bluefield...
at the launching. "Victory Ship to be Museum", Cruise Travel, November 1999, pg 50. Levin, Carl, "Recognition of the SS Wayne Victory", Congressional Record...
Normandy, France, on June 13, 1944. It involved elements of the German 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division and 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment, and the American...
(Mission Chicago and Mission Detroit), and 21:00 (Mission Keokuk and Mission Elmira), bringing additional troops and heavy equipment. Like the paratroopers...
town for two days against the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen. This action delayed the 17th SS Panzergrenadier's counterattack on...
SS Panzer Division, 12th SS Panzer Division and 116th Panzer Division managed to break through the Polish lines and open a corridor, while the 9th SS...
6 (6th Parachute Regiment) of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger-Division. The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, ordered to reinforce Carentan, was delayed by transport...
Anvil of Victory (pbk. Pan ed.). London: Souvenir Press. ISBN 978-0-330-23368-2. Meyer, Kurt (2005) [1994]. Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General...
of the available armored reserves: the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend and the Panzer-Lehr-Division...
frontier." The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, 9th, 11th, 19th and 116th Panzer divisions, alongside the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das...
of D-Day two additional glider operations, mission "Keokuk" and mission "Elmira", brought in additional support on 208 gliders. Operating on British Double...
comprising the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen and 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg, recently arrived from the Eastern Front. The 1st SS Panzer Division...
I SS Panzer Corps. On 14 July, elements of the 272nd Infantry Division took over the defence of Vaucelles from the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf...
group from the 4th Canadian Division and German troops, mainly from the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend". It unfolded near a village in Normandy, Estrées-la-Campagne...
inexperienced divisions and German armoured counter-attacks led notably by tank ace SS-Oberscharführer Rudolf Roy who destroyed 26 allied tanks, halted this offensive...
the right flank of the Panzer Lehr Division and the left flank of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, with the support of 60–80 88 mm guns of the...
armoured brigades, the British I Corps made gradual progress against the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend and the 16th Luftwaffe Field Division. By the...
Surratt stood trial in a civil court in Washington in 1867. Four residents of Elmira, New York,: 27 : 125, 132, 136–37 : 112–15 claimed they had seen him there...
continue to play and the Jackals resumed their championship quest against the Elmira Pioneers on September 17. In a five-game series, New Jersey emerged victorious...
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