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 Georgetown Victory was a Victory ship built for the War Shipping Administration late in World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. She was a type VC2-S-AP2/WSAT cargo ship with the United States Maritime Commission (MCV) -"Victory"; hull number 653, shipyard number 1597 and built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland, she was laid down on 8 March 1945.[2][3]Georgetown Victory, named after Georgetown University, was launched from the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard at Baltimore on April 28, 1945 and completed on 22 May 1945.
Georgetown Victory was one of many new 10,500-ton class ships to be known as Victory ships, designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. Liberty ships were designed to be used solely for World War II, whereas Victory ships were designed to last longer and to serve the US Navy after the war. Victory ships differed from Liberty ships in that they were faster, longer, wider, taller, and had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure. In addition, they had a long raised forecastle.
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...
The SS Luray Victory was the seventeenth Victory ship, a new 10,500 ton class ship built during World War II. The California Shipbuilding Company built...
The SS Northeastern Victory was a cargo ship built during World War II, under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. The Northeastern Victory (MCV-735) was...
at the launching. "Victory Ship to be Museum", Cruise Travel, November 1999, pg 50. Levin, Carl, "Recognition of the SS Wayne Victory", Congressional Record...
ships SS Samuel R. Aitken became USS Oxford, SS Robert W. Hart became USS Georgetown, SS J. Howland Gardner became USS Jamestown with the Victory ships...
Merchant Marine Victory Ship SS Alfred Victory. She was built in 1945 and had a tonnage of 7,607 GRT. During World War II the Alfred Victory was operated...
USS Apogon (SS-308), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the apogons, a genus of cardinalfishes found in tropical and...
Tycoon – Community SS Claridon – ocean liner (based on the RMS Queen Mary) in Ghost Whisperer HMAS Defiance – Patrol Boat USS Georgetown – Supercarrier,...
Rights After Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-62616-431-4. Proctor, Robert (1999). The...
USS Pilotfish (SS-386), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named after the pilot fish, a carangoid fish, often seen in warm...
authorities formed a special 1,000 men strong counter-insurgency unit of combined SS–Wehrmacht forces, including a Panzer group. Although the unit of Major Dobrzański...
World Church. Orbis books; Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University. ISBN 1-57075-375-X. Gale Group. (2002) New Catholic Encyclopedia...
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