Mrs. Thomas Back, wife of the president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, which campaigned to get Victory ships into production[1]
Christened
12 January 1944
Completed
28 February 1944
In service
March 1944
Fate
sold to Furness Withy 1946
United Kingdom
Name
SS Khedive Ismail
Operator
Khedivial Mail S.S. Company
Route
Alexandria – New York City
Maiden voyage
15 March 1948
Renamed
Cleopatra 1956
Identification
IMO number: 5075945
Egypt
Acquired
United Arab Maritime Company 1961
Identification
IMO number: 5075945
Fate
Scrapped 1981
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
[2]
The SS United Victory was the first of 531 Victory ships built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. She was launched by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation on 12 January 1944, completed on 28 February 1944, and had her maiden voyage a month later. The ship's United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number 85. The Maritime Commission turned her over to a civilian contractor, the American President Lines, for operation until the end of hostilities.
^Associated Press, "First Victory Ship Launched", The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Thursday 13 January 1944, Volume 61, Number 244, page 1.
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