SS Atchison Victory

Typical Victory Ship.
History
United States
Name	SS Atchison Victory
Namesake	Atchison, Kansas
Owner	War Shipping Administration
Operator	American President Lines
Builder	California Shipbuilding Company, Los Angeles
Laid down	17 February 1944
Launched	22 April 1944
Completed	8 June 1944
Fate	Sold to the United Kingdom, 1946
United Kingdom
Name	SS Mohamed Ali el-Kebir
Operator	Khedivial Mail S.S. Company
Route	Alexandria - New York City
Fate	Sold to Egypt, 1960
Egypt
Name	SS Salah El Din
Acquired	United Arab Maritime Company 1961
Fate	Burned, 4 September 1963 Sold to Liberia, 1963
Liberia
Name	SS Mercantile Victory
Fate	Burned, 1964 Scrapped, 1965
General characteristics
Class and 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)
Draft	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	1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber gun 1 × 3 inch (76 mm)/50 caliber gun 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon
Notes	[1]

SS Atchison Victory was a Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. She was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on 22 April 1944 and completed on 8 June 1944. The ship’s United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number 11 (MCV-11, V11). She was built at a cost of $3,606,688.00 in 1944.^[2] The Maritime Commission turned her over to a civilian contractor, the American President Lines, for operation until the end of hostilities. Atchison Victory served in the Pacific during World War II. Her first stop was to Pearl Harbor on her way to the islands in the Pacific.^[3]