62 merchant marine and 28 United States Navy Armed Guard as Victory ship.
358 officers and men
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 Hobbs Victory on fire on April 6, 1945 off Kerama Islands, Okinawa
SS Hobbs Victory was a cargo Victory ship built for World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. Hobbs Victory, was launched on January 9, 1945 by Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California and completed on January 9, 1945. She was built in just 87 days. She was operated by the Sudden & Christenson for the United States Maritime Commission.[2][3]
SSHobbsVictory was a cargo Victory ship built for World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. HobbsVictory, was launched on January 9, 1945...
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's Combined Fleet. A veteran of Japan's crushing victory over Russia at the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War, the Pearl...
disintegrated in seconds with the loss of all hands. SS Canada Victory, SS Logan Victory and SSHobbsVictory were hit by kamikaze aircraft at Okinawa and sank...
USS Baya (SS/AGSS-318), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the baya. During World War II, she completed five war patrols...
the Canada Victory. The SS Logan Victory and SSHobbsVictory were also hit by kamikaze planes at Okinawa. The Logan Victory and HobbsVictory sank as fires...
World War II: The Pacific Theater. Lecture 21. Professor Craig Symonds Hobbs, David (January 2013). "The Royal Navy's Pacific Strike Force". US Naval...
USS Bullhead (SS-332), a Balao-class submarine, was the last US Navy ship sunk by enemy action during World War II, probably on the same day that an atomic...
USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SSHobbsVictory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447...
the burning ships. All these ammunition ships: SS Logan Victory, SSHobbsVictory, SS Pierre Victory and USS LST-447 used their deck guns and were able...
April 2003 with the MS Fritz Reuter and an MDR-Team (in German) Photograph of SS Goya 55°12′02″N 18°18′36″E / 55.20056°N 18.31000°E / 55.20056; 18.31000...
finally crashing alongside the ship. SSHobbsVictory's uncontrollable fires lead to her abandonment. SSHobbsVictory exploded and sank the following morning...
Near the Clovis Victory at Okinawa was the SSHobbsVictory, on April 6, 1945, the HobbsVictory was hit by a kamikaze plane. HobbsVictory worked to put...
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...
Italian aircraft carrier converted from the transatlantic passenger liner SS Roma. During World War II, Work on Aquila began in late 1941 at the Ansaldo...
In this battle, Newcomb and her sister ships played a key role in the victory which insured the success of General Douglas MacArthur's return to the...
USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SSHobbsVictory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447...
USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SSHobbsVictory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447...
ship under Red Cross auspices in 1945, she was torpedoed by USS Queenfish (SS-393), resulting in the death of all but one of the 2,004 people aboard. The...
German force paid an official visit to Malaga following the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War 1939. Together with the ships stationed in the...
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