The SS ''Chanute Victory'' was a
Victory ship built during
World War II under the
Emergency Shipbuilding program. She was launched by the
California Shipbuilding Company on January 19, 1945, and completed on February 20, 1945. The ship's
United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2- S- AP3, hull number 79 (V44).
World War II
SS ''Chanute Victory'' served as a
troop ship in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during World War II. She was operated by the American-Hawaiian SS Company. Just before the end of the war, the ''Chanute Victorys Captain Larz Neilson steamed out of
New York City to take new troops to Europe. But, three day out she was told to turn around and go home, back up the
East River, as the war was nearing an end in
Europe. She served as a troop ship again, but as part of
Operation Magic Carpet
Operation Magic Carpet was the post- World War II operation by the War Shipping Administration to repatriate over eight million American military personnel from the European, Pacific, and Asian theaters. Hundreds of Liberty ships, Victory s ...
to bring troops home. SS ''Chanute Victory'' and 96 other Victory ships were converted to troop ships to bring the US soldiers home at the end of World War II. Some of her noted trips: ''Chanute Victory'' returned 1,403 Army veterans to
San Francisco from
Yokohama, Japan on Jan. 24, 1946. On May 17, 1946 she arrived in
New York City returning Army veterans to the States. December 1946 she sailed from
Piraeus, Greece to
Genoa, Italy, then to
Lisbon
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, Portugal picking up troops and returning them to New York. ''Chanute Victory'', returned 1061 troops from
Bremen
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, Germany on June 25, 1946 . In December 1945 she returned troop home from
Le Havre, France.
Post war
After the war in 1947 she was sold to N.V.Van Nievelt, Goudriaan & Co, of
Rotterdam, Netherlands and renamed SS ''Alphacca''. In 1964 she was sold to China Merchants S.N.Co, in Port of
Keelung
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,
Taiwan and renamed SS ''Hai-Fu ''. In 1973 she was sold to Yang Ming Marine Transport Company in
Taipei, Taiwan and renamed SS ''Kai Ming''. In 1977 Yang Ming Marine Transport Company renamed her the SS ''Ming Cathay''. In 1978 she was scrapped at
Kaohsiung
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, Taiwan.
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See also
* List of Victory ships
* Liberty ship
* Type C1 ship
* Type C2 ship
* Type C3 ship
References
Sources
*Sawyer, L.A. and W.H. Mitchell. ''Victory ships and tankers: The history of the ‘Victory’ type cargo ships and of the tankers built in the United States of America during World War II'', Cornell Maritime Press, 1974, 0-87033-182-5.
*United States Maritime Commission
*Victory Cargo Ship
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