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- The SS Brainerd Victory was a Victory-class cargo ship built during World War II. Brainerd city Mayor Frank Johnson wrote to the Oregon Shipbuilding Company: The naming of a ship for Brainerd is greatly appreciated by our citizens. Boys of this community who formed a tank company fought, died and were taken prisoner on Bataan and naming of the S.S. Brainerd Victory stands as a tribute to them. The ship was christened by Mrs. J.A. McEachern, wife of the corporation's president John Alexander McEachern. The Brainerd Victory was sponsored by Oregon Shipbuilding Company shipyard employees to let them share in the last Victory ship built under government contract. She was operated by Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company during the war. In a letter to Mayor Johnson, Robert Horton, the public relations director for the United States Maritime Commission wrote:It is a pleasure to advise you that the Maritime Commission is naming one of the new Victory ships in honor of the city of Brainerd, Minnesota. This vessel is one of a series going into service during 1945, which will be named after cities of the United States. Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty ships. Liberty ships were designed to be used just for World War II. 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, had a thinner stack that was set farther toward the superstructure and had a long raised forecastle. As the war was over, the Brainerd Victory steamed the West Coast, delivering goods to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Suisun Bay. (en)
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- Sank 1964 with loss of 4 crewmen near Bermuda
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- *1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber gun
*1 × 3 inch (76 mm)/50 caliber gun
*8 × 20 mm Oerlikon (en)
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- VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship (en)
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- Sank 1964 with loss of 4 crewmen near Bermuda (en)
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- Last Victory Ship built at Oregon Shipbuilding (en)
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- HP & LP turbines geared to a single propeller (en)
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- The SS Brainerd Victory was a Victory-class cargo ship built during World War II. Brainerd city Mayor Frank Johnson wrote to the Oregon Shipbuilding Company: The naming of a ship for Brainerd is greatly appreciated by our citizens. Boys of this community who formed a tank company fought, died and were taken prisoner on Bataan and naming of the S.S. Brainerd Victory stands as a tribute to them. The ship was christened by Mrs. J.A. McEachern, wife of the corporation's president John Alexander McEachern. The Brainerd Victory was sponsored by Oregon Shipbuilding Company shipyard employees to let them share in the last Victory ship built under government contract. She was operated by Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company during the war. (en)
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