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词条 SS Clarksdale Victory
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  1. World War II

  2. Honors

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. Sources

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}}{{Infobox ship career		 Ship country = United States1945}} Ship name = SS Clarksdale VictoryShip namesake = Clarksdale, Mississippi Ship owner = War Shipping Administration Ship builder = California Shipbuilding Company, Los Angeles Ship laid down = December 2, 1944 Ship launched = January 27, 1945 Ship completed = February 26, 1945 Ship operator = American President Lines Ship fate = Sank 1947 off the coast of British Columbia
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|Ship speed=16.5 knots
|Ship boats=4 Lifeboats
|Ship complement=62 Merchant Marine and 28 US Naval Armed Guards
|Ship armament=*1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber gun
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The SS Clarksdale Victory was the 80th Victory ship built during World War II. She was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on January 27, 1945, and completed on February 26, 1945. The ship’s United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number 80. She was built in just 86 days under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. SS Clarksdale Victory served in the Pacific Ocean during WW2. SS Clarksdale Victory was 80th 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.[2]

World War II

During World War II the Clarksdale Victory was a cargo supply ship. She took supplies to support the troops at the Battle of Okinawa. She was at Okinawa from April 26 to May 8, 1945. On April 27, 1945 a shell landed only 15 yards from the Clarksdale Victory. The shell exploded and fragments landed on her deck. One of Clarksdale Victory{{'}}s lifeboats was damaged by the fragments. On the same day near by, the SS Canada Victory was hit by a kamikaze plane; the explosion in a cargo hold blew out the side of the ship, and she sank in seven minutes.[3][4]

After the war, in January of 1946 she came alongside the USS Taluga (AO-62) at Yokohama, Japan, and unloaded 220 barrels of diesel oil.[5][6]

SS Clarksdale Victory ran aground and was wrecked on the British Columbia, Canada coastline off Hippa Reef Island, near Graham Island on November 24, 1947. Clarksdale Victory lost 49 of her 53 crew that day. She was en route from Whittier, Alaska to Seattle. She broke in two due to 50-foot waves pounding her into the rocks; she sank quickly. The SS Denali was sent out in a rescue effort, but due to the high waves had to call off the rescue. The Coast Guard cutters USCGC Wachusett and USCGC Citrus rescued four survivors and the bodies of three of the victims.[7][8][9][10][11]

[12][13][14][15]

Honors

Crew of Naval Armed Guard on the SS Clarksdale Victory earned "Battle Stars" in World War II for war action during the assault occupation of Okinawa from 26 April 1945 to 8 May 1945.[16]

See also

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

References

1. ^{{Cite journal |author=Babcock & Wilcox |date=April 1944 |title=Victory Ships |journal=Marine Engineering and Shipping Review}}
2. ^shipbuildinghistory.com, Victory Ships list
3. ^[https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/n/naval-armed-guard-service-in-world-war-ii/action-at-okinawa.html US Navy, Action at Okinawa]
4. ^USMM, Battle of Okinawa
5. ^USS.Taluga.AO-62, History: from Ships' Log
6. ^historicimages.com, Clarksdale Victory post card
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.harlowmarine.com/app/newsletter/view_article/19,2.html |title=Shipwrecks in British Columbia's Waters |first=K E |last=Heaton |date=8 July 2004 |accessdate=21 April 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323004706/http://www.harlowmarine.com/app/newsletter/view_article/19%2C2.html |archivedate=23 March 2012 |df= }}
8. ^K.E. Heaton, "Shipwrecks in British Columbia’s Waters", Harlow Marine, July 8, 2004 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323004706/http://www.harlowmarine.com/app/newsletter/view_article/19%2C2.html |date=March 23, 2012 }}
9. ^World Ship Society
10. ^wrecksite, Clarksdale Victory
11. ^Write Site map
12. ^Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1947, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p.549
13. ^[https://www.flickr.com/photos/46311608@N05/4349791680 Photo of wreck]
14. ^[https://www.panoramio.com/photo/73946818 Photo of wreck]
15. ^[https://www.panoramio.com/user/6987763 Photo of wreck]
16. ^usmm.org, "Battle Stars" in World War II.

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.
  • United States Maritime Commission:  
  • Victory Cargo Ships  
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