SS United Victory
Typical Victory ship | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | SS United Victory |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration |
| Operator | American President Lines |
| Builder | Oregon Shipbuilding Company Portland |
| Laid down | 19 November 1943 |
| Launched | 12 January 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Thomas Back, wife of the president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, which campaigned to get Victory ships into production |
| Christened | 12 January 1944 |
| Completed | 28 February 1944 |
| In service | March 1944 |
| Fate | sold to Furness Withy 1946 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | SS Khedive Ismail |
| Operator | Khedivial Mail S.S. Company |
| Route | Alexandria – New York City |
| Maiden voyage | 15 March 1948 |
| Renamed | Cleopatra 1956 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5075945 |
| Egypt | |
| Acquired | United Arab Maritime Company 1961 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5075945 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1981 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship |
| Tonnage | 7612 GRT, 4,553 NRT |
| Displacement | 15,200 tons |
| Length | 455 ft (139 m) |
| Beam | 62 ft (19 m) |
| Draught | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Installed power | 8,500 shp (6,300 kW) |
| Propulsion | HP & LP turbines geared to a single 20.5-foot (6.2 m) propeller |
| Speed | 16.5 knots |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 4 Lifeboats |
| Complement | 62 Merchant Marine and 28 US Naval Armed Guards |
| Armament | |
| Notes | |
The SS United Victory was the first of 531 Victory ships built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. She was launched by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation on 12 January 1944, completed on 28 February 1944, and had her maiden voyage a month later. The ship's United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number 85. The Maritime Commission turned her over to a civilian contractor, the American President Lines, for operation until the end of hostilities.