SS Sharon Victory
The "SS Sharon Victory" was a Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. She was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on April 15, 1944, and completed on September 28, 1944. The ship's United States Maritime Commission designation was 'VC2- S- AP3, hull number 29'. She was operated by the Matson Navigation Company of Hawaii. The 10,500-ton Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. Liberty ships were designed to be used just for World War II compared to Victory ships, which were designed to last longer and serve the US Navy after the war. Victory ships differed from Liberty ships in that they were faster, longer and wider, taller, had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure, and had a long raised forecastle.

Following World War II and Korean War service, "Sharon Victory" was mothballed at the James River Reserve Fleet and was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1988.
Q1613775
Victory ship
MISC
Q362
World War II
EVE
Q1335461
Emergency Shipbuilding program
Concept
Q5020962
California Shipbuilding Company
LOC
Q2326941
United States Maritime Commission
ORG
Q782
Hawaii
LOC
Q593485
Liberty Ship
Concept
Q1370583
superstructure
Concept
Q357447
forecastle
UNK
Q362
World War II
EVE
Q8663
Korean War
EVE
Q181557
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
LOC
Q97358987
SS Sharon Victory
MISC
1944-04-15T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
April 15, 1944
DATE
1944-09-28T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
September 28, 1944
DATE
1988-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1988
DATE
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2
NUMBER
+3^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
3
NUMBER
+29^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
29
NUMBER
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