SS Mexico Victory
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 A typical Victory Ship | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Mexico Victory |
| Builder/Built | 1944 California Shipbuilding Company, Los Angeles. |
| Type | Victory Ship |
| Displacement | 10,500 tons |
| Speed | 16.5 knots |
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The SS Mexico Victory was the 7th Victory ship built during World War II. She was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on March 27, 1944 and completed on May 19, 1944. She was built in 114 days under the Emergency Shipbuilding program.
During WW2 the SS Mexico Victory served in the Pacific Ocean. The Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. Liberty ships were designed to be used just for World War II, while Victory ships were designed to last longer and to serve the US Navy after the war. The Victory ship differed from a Liberty ship in that they were: faster, longer and wider, taller, they had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure and had a long raised forecastle.
The Mexico Victory spent a short time laid up in 1947, before serving in the Korean War from 1950 until 1953. In 1967 she was sold to Gdynia-America Shipping Lines in Poland and renamed SS Kilinski. Sold in 1971 to Poul Christensen in Denmark, she was again renamed, this time to SS Lin. In 1973 she was scrapped in Taiwan.