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History
United States
Name	Coeur d'Alene Victory
Namesake	City of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Owner	War Shipping Administration
Operator	Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company, Isbrandtsen Steamship Company
Builder	Oregon Shipbuilding Company Portland
Laid down	November 12, 1944
Launched	December 15, 1944
Completed	January 12, 1945
Fate	Sold
History
United States
Name	SS Examilia 1947 (Greece!)
Operator	Reported as Victory Carriers Incorporated - Export Steamship Corp.
Fate	Seized by the US government 1953, for false sale reporting.
History
United States
Name	SS Coeur d'Alene Victory 1953
Operator	US Navy
Fate	Scrapped in 1969 in Taiwan
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)
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	1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber gun 1 × 3 inch (76 mm)/50 caliber gun 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon
Notes

The SS Coeur d'Alene Victory was a Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. She was launched by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation on December 15, 1944, completed on January 12, 1945. The ship's United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number 153 (1207). The Maritime Commission turned her over to a civilian contractor, the Isbrandtsen Steamship Company, for operation under the War Shipping Administration.

Victory ships were designed to supersede the earlier Liberty Ships. Unlike Liberty ships, Victory ships were designed to serve the US Navy after the war and also last longer. The Victory ship differed from a Liberty ship in that they were: faster, longer and wider, taller, and had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure. They also had a long raised forecastle.

World War II.

The SS Coeur d'Alene Victory was used as cargo ship in World War II. Coeur d'Alene Victory was 153 of the new 10,500-ton class ship known as Victory ships. Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. Liberty ships were designed to be used just for WW2. Victory ships were designed to last longer and serve the US Navy after the war. The Victory ship differed from a Liberty ship in that they were: faster, longer and wider, taller, a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure and had a long raised forecastle. On July 22, 1946, she departed New York City for Budapest.

Korean War

Coeur d'Alene Victory served shortly in the Korean War. Coeur d'Alene Victory loaded up on Quonset huts at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. She ran aground at Quonset Point, but waited for high tide she was able to get free. On December 4, 1950, she arrived at Pusan, Korea. Fight had intensified in Korea since she departed and the Quonset huts where not a top priority no. After a few days she departed Pusan and streamed to Kobay loaded radar sets and streamed to Yokohama, Japan. She then streamed to Mugi District, Gifu, Japan and loaded fire rescue trucks on deck. She sailed to Puson and unloaded her cargo. Due to worn parts she streamed to Oakland, California for repairs.

Private use

She was sold to Victory Carriers Incorporated on July 25, 1949, for $986,424.50, then reported transferred to the Export Steamship Corp. and renamed SS Examilia after the city Examilia in Greece. In September 1953 the Coeur d'Alene Victory was seized by the US government because it was a war built ship that was purchased from the US by foreign party who said they were an American owned company. Asst. U.S. Atty. Gen. Keith filed an action in the case in a Federal Court. Victory Carriers, Inc. claimed to be the buyer and owner, but in court was found to be purchased by a Greek company, A. Sonassis, not Victory Carriers, Inc. or Export Steamship Corp. On April 17, 1957, she departed Yokohama, Japan for the USA.

On Nov. 11, 1967 she and the SS Hissem came to the aid of the SS San Jose that was on fire, near Guam.

Coeur d'Alene Victory was scrapped in 1969 in Taiwan.

See also

• List of Victory ships
• Liberty ship
• Type C1 ship
• Type C2 ship
• Type C3 ship

References

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5. "Liberty Ships and Victory Ships --Setting the Stage". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
6. The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia, Victory ships
7. "Victory Ships". Shipbuildinghistory.com. 2009-11-21. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
8. "JDC - Archives : Letter from AJJDC - New York to AJDC - Budapest, Hungary, Re: S.S. "Coeur d'Alene Victory" Departed N. Y. 7/22/46 for Budapest". Search.archives.jdc.org. 1947-07-07. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
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10. "Merchant Marine Accounts of the Korean War". Koreanwar-educator.org. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
11. San Bernardino Sun, Volume 60, Number 14, dated 16 September 1953
12. "Archived copy" (PDF). www.uscg.mil. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
13. "Full text of "Marine fire prevention, firefighting, and fire safety / Maritime Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce"". Archive.org. 1979. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
14. "American President Lines - The Liners". Fabricio3d.weebly.com. Retrieved 2017-05-30.

Sources

• Sawyer, L.A. and W.H. Mitchell. Victory ships and tankers: The history of the ‘Victory’ type cargo ships and of the tankers built in the United States of America during World War II, Cornell Maritime Press, 1974, 0-87033-182-5.

External links

• Victory Ships built by the U.S. Maritime Commission during World War II
• Victory Cargo Ships Archived 2005-09-22 at the Wayback Machine

• Victory ships
• Ships built in Portland, Oregon
• United States Merchant Marine
• 1944 ships
• World War II merchant ships of the United States