SS Lake Charles Victory
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 photo of a sister Victory ship | |
 While named SS Akkrumdyk | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Lake Charles Victory |
| Owner | US War Shipping Administration |
| Builder | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard Inc.- Baltimore, Maryland |
| Launched | 1 Feb 1945 |
| Completed | 28 Feb 1945 |
| In service | March 1945 |
| Out of service | 1946 |
| Fate | sold several time, eventually scrapped 1969 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | VC2-S-AP2 |
| Tonnage | 7,612 tons |
| Length | 455.3' (138.78m) |
| Beam | 62' (18.90m) |
| Depth | 28'6" (8.69m) |
| Propulsion | single screw |
| Speed | 15 knots (27.8 kmh) |
Remarks
Launched on 1 Feb 1945 and served in the Pacific Theatre of war. One of 531 ships constructed as part of the better designed Victory series. 414 were used as cargo ships with 97 of them, including Lakes Charles Victory, refitted as troop carriers. Many of these ships were used to return troops from the Pacific theatre to Australia and the US.
At the completion of the war the Lake Charles Victory was laid up in the James River during 1946 before being sold to Argentine de Nav. de Ultramar in Buenos Aires who renamed her Argentina Victory. Sold again in 1948 to the Holland America Line of Rotterdam who renamed her SS Akkrumdyk, and sold again in 1962, this time to the Overseas Maritime inc. of Monrovia, Liberia who gave her the name Pacific Comet.
On 20 Nov 1968 she broke down in the Pacific Ocean and had to be towed to Honolulu, but later completed her voyage to Saigon. In 1969 she was scrapped in Taiwan.