USNS ''Adelphi'' (T-AG-181) was one of 12 ships scheduled to be acquired by the

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in February 1966 and converted into Forward Depot Ships for service with the

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. The SS Adelphi Victory (MCV-760) was chosen for this conversion and assigned the name ''Adelphi'', but the program was cancelled and the ships were not acquired by the Navy. She was built under the

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for World War II. For post World War II work she was operated by Marine Transport Line of San Francisco. After her post war duties in 1947 she was laid up in the

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, in the

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. In 1966 she was removed from the

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and reactivated for the

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. The ship operated under commercial charter carrying supplies to Vietnam under her original name, ''SS Adelphi Victory''. In 1973 the ''SS Adelphi Victory'' was laid up in

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, California, as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet. In 1993 she was scrapped in China.MARINERS, THE WEBSITE OF THE MARINERS, VICTORY SHIPS - A
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Adelphi (T-AG-181) Victory ships Ships built in Richmond, California 1945 ships World War II merchant ships of the United States Cancelled ships of the United States Navy