SS Mayaguez

SS Mayaguez
The Mayaguez under attack by Khmer Rouge gunboats
History
United States
CommissionedApril 1944
Decommissioned1979
IdentificationIMO number5312044
FateScrapped in 1979

SS Mayaguez was a U.S.-flagged container ship that is best known for its 12 May 1975 seizure by Khmer Rouge forces of Cambodia, which resulted in a confrontation with the United States at the close of the Vietnam War.