SSLincoln Victory and other Victory ships at a U.S. west coast shipyardCalship yard,Wilmington, California in 1944.
History
United States
Name	SSLincoln Victory
Namesake	Lincoln, Nebraska-Abraham Lincoln
Owner	War Shipping Administration
Operator	Eastern SS Lines
Builder	California Shipbuilding Company,Los Angeles
Yard number	V13
Laid down	February 26, 1944
Launched	April 27, 1944
Completed	June 15, 1944
Homeport	Los Angeles
Identification	IMO number: 5326746 Call sign: WMYY[1]
Fate	Sold to theNetherlands, 1947
Netherlands
Name	SSAardijk
Operator	Holland America Line
Renamed	SSAardyk, 1954
Homeport	Rotterdam
Identification	Call sign: PCAU
Fate	Sold toTaiwan, 1962
Taiwan
Name	SSSian Yung
Owner	Chinese Maritime Trust Company
Homeport	Keelung
Identification	Call sign: BMDO[2]
Fate	Partially sunk and abandoned, 6 December 1970; refloated and scuttled in deeper waters, 11 January 1972
General characteristics
Class & type	VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship
Tonnage	7612GRT, 4,553NRT
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 & LPturbines 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(a Victory ship)
Notes	[3]

TheSSLincoln Victory was aVictory ship built duringWorld War II under theEmergency Shipbuilding program. She was built by theCalifornia Shipbuilding Company, launched on April 27, 1944 and completed on June 15, 1944. The ship’sUnited States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number 13 (V13); she was initially operated by theEastern SS Lines as aUnited States Merchant Marine ship.

The SSLincoln Victory served in theAtlantic Ocean during World War II. SSLincoln Victory, along with 96 other Victory ships, were converted totroopships to bring the US soldiers home as part ofOperation Magic Carpet. She departed the so-calledCigarette Camps inEurope to bring troops home. She had two notable Atlantic crossings. On Dec. 17, 1945, she steamed out ofLe Havre,France with 1,535 troops arriving inBoston on Dec. 27, 1945. In this trip, she carried the 93rd quartermaster railroad company, the 3914th quartermaster gas supply company, and the 783rd railway shop battalion and transportation corps. In February 1946, she departed fromBremerhaven,Germany, returning soldiers toCamp Kilmer,New Jersey.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

After the war, on May 27, 1947, theLincoln Victory was sold to theDutch government'sNederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart-Maatschappij, that later became the Holland America who renamed her the SSAardijk. She began her second maiden voyage on July 23, 1947 fromRotterdam toCuba,Mexico and thenNew Orleans. In 1954, she was renamed the SSAardyk by the Holland America Line.^{[9][10][11][12]}

In 1962, she was sold to the Chinese Maritime Trust Company inTaiwan and renamed the SSSian Yung. On December 6, 1970, while southbound on a voyage from the Panama Canal to theFar East with a cargo of rice, baled cotton, and 200 barrels of heavy fuel oil, theSian Yung was damaged after hitting rocks at theGaillard Cut. To stop her from sinking in the Canal, she was run aground near thePedro Miguel locks. Several salvage attempts were made, but all initially failed. In 1972, her cargo and entiresuperstructure was removed so theAjax and Hercules cranes could raise her, allowing workers to patch her, pump out water, and move her to theBay of Panama. She was half sunk on Jan. 11, 1972 into her final resting place along the shore, south ofBalboa, Panama at 7°44N 79°21W.^{[13][14][15][16]} The owner of theSian Yung abandoned the ship to its insurance underwriter. A court case on April 30, 1973 decided the cost of the loss.^[17][18][19]

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

• 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.
• United States Maritime Commission:[1]
• Victory Cargo Ships[2]Archived 2005-09-22 at theWayback Machine

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