USS Lakewood Victory (AK-236) at anchor, probably when she returned to San Francisco, in March 1946, after a postwar voyage to the Western Pacific. Her armament had been removed, probably during repair work at Puget Sound, in October and November 1945.
History
United States
Name
Lakewood Victory
Namesake
Lakewood, California,
Lakewood, Colorado,
Lakewood, New Jersey,
Lakewood, New York, and
Lakewood, Ohio
Ordered
as type (VC2-S-AP2) hull, MCV hull 545
Builder
Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California
Yard number
Yard No.1
Laid down
16 September 1944
Launched
17 November 1944
Sponsored by
Mrs. Edward A. Fitzgerald
Commissioned
11 December 1944
Decommissioned
16 May 1946
Stricken
5 June 1946
Identification
Hull symbol: AK-236
IMO number: 5202718
Honors and awards
two battle stars during World War II
Fate
Sold for scrapping, 9 August 1993, to California Import Export Inc., for $368,512
USS Lakewood Victory (AK-236) was a Boulder Victory-class cargo ship acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Pacific Ocean theatre of operations through the end of the war, earning two battle stars, and then returned to the United States for disposal.
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