She also steamed to Tsingtao port in Mainland China, then to Shanghai. On May 11, 1949, she transported 7.23 tons of clothing to Yokohama and on April 2, 1949, delivered 13.75 tons of food. On August 27, 1947, she delivered 31 tons of food and 7.9 tons of clothing to Yokohama, Japan, as part of relief supplies. China Victory was on the way to the Philippines from San Francisco when she reported the discovery of the lifeboat, floating upside down in the water, about 885 miles northwest of Oahu. On March 12, 1947, China Victory found the empty lifeboat of the broken-up T2 tanker SS Fort Dearborn that sank on March 12. After World War II Īfter World War II she was laid up Astoria, Oregon, then moved to Olympia, Washington, for a short time as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet. China Victory was close to Japan near the end of the war and saw the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. One of the first things to be unloaded was 10-man rubber inflatable boats so the wounded could be moved from the beach to the hospital ship by the engineers. The China Victory arrived July 22, 1944, at Guam the battle had started the day before. Oglesby to kept a record of her load he knew what was removed, reloaded and on the ship at all times and were to find it. It was the battalion’s TQM's responsibility to load and unload her at each stop. clothing shoes mosquito repellent salt tablets arms bandages typewriter ribbons and thousands of other needed items.
China Victory load included sixty medium tanks thirty-six light tanks 139 trucks and jeeps thirty days of supplies for the Combat Team, including gas and oil and rations by the hundreds of cases 650 tons of ammunition nineteen outboard motors fifty-four 10-man rubber boats lumber wire T.N.T. China Victory took from island to island thirty-four hundred tons of artillery, ammunition, gas, trucks, guns, rations, water, medical supplies and more. China Victory was taking all the supplies and vehicles for the 233rd Engineer Combat Battalion to the Second Battle of Guam, fought from July 21 to August 10 of 1944 the Battle of Leyte (at Battle of Ormoc Bay) from October 17 to Decemthe Battle of Iwo Jima from February 19 to Maand the Battle of Okinawa from April 1 until June 22, 1945.
On the way to Guam the convoy stopped at the base at Enewetak Atoll. Also in the convoy was the USS Alcione, transporting the 1st Battalion, 307th Infantry, and Company A, 233d Engineers the USS Frederick Funston transporting the 2nd Battalion, 307th Infantry, and Company B, 233d Engineers the USS War Hawk transporting the 3rd Battalion, 307th Infantry, and Company C, 233d Engineers the USAT Noordam the USS Elmore the USS Harris the USS Herald of the Morning the USS Barnstable the USS Goodhue the USS Montrail the USS Eastland the USS Telfair and the USS Wyandot. The flagship of the convoy was the SS Monrovia with the 307th Combat Team. On July 7, 1944, she was loaded to the max and on July 9, 1944, she departed Honolulu Harbor for Guam, in a convoy. A 100-man team working 12-hour shifts was used to load her with the goods needed for island fighting. The 233rd Engineer Combat Battalion's Transport Quartermaster Team loaded in to the China Victory at Honolulu starting on July 1, 1944. SS China Victory picked up her crew in San Francisco and headed to Honolulu. SS China Victory was one of a long line of Victory ships to leave the Calship building. Chang, wife of the Chinese consul at Los Angeles. The matron of honor at the launching was Mrs. The ceremony had both an ancient Chinese invocation to the sea gods and the traditional American tradition of a bottle of champagne breaking. SS China Victory was christened by the Republic of China's Envoy's wife, Wei Tao-ming. Victory ships differed from Liberty ships in that they were faster, longer and wider, taller, had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure, and had a long raised forecastle. Liberty ships were designed to be used just for World War II compared to Victory ships, which were designed to last longer and serve the US Navy after the war. The 10,500-ton Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. SS China Victory served in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
She was operated by the Matson Navigation Company of Hawaii. The ship's United States Maritime Commission designation was 'VC2- S- AP3, hull number 1'.
She was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on January 26, 1944, and completed on April 1, 1944. The SS China Victory was a Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. HP & LP turbines geared to a single 20.5-foot (6.2 m) propellerĦ2 Merchant Marine and 28 US Naval Armed Guards California Shipbuilding Company, Los Angeles
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