Cross compound steam turbine, single screw, 8,500 shp
Speed
15.5 knots
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 Aiken Victory arriving in Boston with 1,958 troops from Europe, 26 July 1945USNS Aiken Victory taken sometime between 1951-1952
USNS Aiken Victory (T-AP-188) was a Victory ship-based troop transport that served with the United States Army Transport Service during both World War II and the Korean War. She was one of a class of 84 dedicated troop transports.[2]
She was laid down as a VC2-S-AP2 hull, no. 616[3] on 13 October 1944 at Baltimore, Maryland, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc., under a Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 616); launched on 30 November 1944; and delivered to the Maritime Commission on 30 December 1944. She was operated under Maritime Commission contract by Mississippi Shipping Company. She was put in the reserve fleet in Suisun Bay on February 22, 1947.[3]
She was reactivated on July 21, 1950, to join the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) during the Korean War. She was returned to the reserve fleet on December 19, 1952, and remained there until allocated for scrapping to American Ship Dismantlers, Inc., on August 10, 1971, and physically delivered August 26.[3][4]
USNSAikenVictory (T-AP-188) was a Victory ship-based troop transport that served with the United States Army Transport Service during both World War...
conversion of two ships: USNS Lt. James E. Robinson and USNS Sgt. Jack J. Pendleton Denebola-class stores ships (AF), 3 Victory ships that came under US...
(T-AP-185), ex-APH-3 USNS Sgt. Charles E. Mower (T-AP-186), ex-APH-1 USNS Private Joe P. Martinez (T-AP-187) USNSAikenVictory (T-AP-188) USNS Lt. Raymond O...
The initial contingent of troops transported to Korea aboard the USNSAikenVictory. Once in-country, the Colombian Battalion received training and then...
This is a list of Victory ships. Victory ships were a type of cargo ship which were mass-produced in the United States during World War II. In the following...
was replaced, in mid-1964, by two U.S. Air Force ships, USNS General H. H. Arnold and USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, both Advanced Research Instrumentation...
Allies’ key to victory in the Pacific." John Wayne's character of Lieutenant (j.g.) "Rusty" Ryan was based on Commander Robert B. Kelly, USN, who became...
career in 1944 as a member of the Harvard Mark I team, led by Howard H. Aiken. In 1949, she joined the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation and was part...
capacity-building in West and Central Africa. Commander John D. Tolg, commanded the 2009 USNS SWIFT Africa Partnership Station (APS) to West Central Africa, the deployment...
Publishing. pp. 41–2. ISBN 978-0313337550. "Vietnam report finds G.O.P. split; Aiken Criticizes U.S. Policy and Dirksen Defends It in Wake of Staff Study". The...
Danner, Megan. "Doris Miller". wacohistory.org. Retrieved February 7, 2018. Aiken, David. "Doris Miller and his Navy Cross: a brief biography". Pearl Harbor...
against those students - Deshawndre Washington, Doctor Bradley and Kim Aiken Jr - who were on the 2022-3 basketball team, is still ongoing. A second...
support of the school of thought headed by Senator Mansfield and Senator Aiken and leave ourselves with die-hard opposition only from Senator Morse and...
Jax). More than 700 buildings sprung to life on the base before V-J Day (Victory over Japan), including an 80-acre (320,000 m2) hospital and a prisoner-of-war...
which would attempt to develop a political settlement for the country. The USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly a deep-sea drillship, arrived at the Pacific...
Discussion Forums. July 13, 2007. Pearl Harbor's Lost P-36's, by David Aiken, Flight Journal, Sep/October 2002. Archived July 11, 2011, at the Wayback...
Marseille. Here it boarded two ships, the USS General C. G. Morton, and the USNS John Ericsson (T-AO-194). When Japan surrendered, the Morton was diverted...
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