SS Lane Victory
SS Lane Victory at its previous berth by the Vincent Thomas Bridge.
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| Name: | SS Lane Victory |
| Namesake: | Lane College |
| Builder: | California Shipbuilding (Calship) |
| Launched: | 1945 Los Angeles, California |
| Maiden voyage: | June 27 ,1945 |
| In service: | 1945 |
| Homeport: | San Pedro, California |
| Status: | Museum Ship |
| Notes: | Radio Call Sign – KECW |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | VC2-S-AP2 Victory Ship |
| Tonnage: | 10,750 long tons deadweight (DWT) |
| Length: | 455 feet |
| Beam: | 62 feet |
| Draft: | 28 feet 6 inches |
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| Speed: | 17 knots |
| Range: | 23,500 miles |
| Capacity: | 500,000 cubic feet (approximate) |
| Complement: | 62 United States Merchant Marine and United States Navy Armed Guard |
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| Aircraft carried: | none |
| Aviation facilities: | none |
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Lane Victory
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| Location | Berth 49, Port of San Pedro, San Pedro, California |
| Coordinates | 33°42′52″N 118°16′29″W / 33.71444°N 118.27472°WCoordinates: 33°42′52″N 118°16′29″W / 33.71444°N 118.27472°W |
| Built | 1945 |
| Architect | California Shipbuilding Corporation |
| NRHP Reference # | 90002222 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 14 December 1990 |
| Designated NHL | 14 December 1990 |
SS Lane Victory is an American Victory-class cargo ship used in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War. The ship was preserved in 1989 to serve as a museum ship in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, California. As a rare surviving Victory ship, she was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
SS Lane Victory was named after Lane College, which was established as a high school for black youths in 1882 at Jackson, Tennessee by Isaac Lane, a bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America. The school grew into a prominent liberal arts college.
Lane Victory was built in Los Angeles by the California Shipbuilding Corporation and launched on May 31, 1945. On her first voyage, June 27, 1945, Lane Victory carried war supplies in the Pacific. The War Shipping Administration gave the operations of the ship to the American President Lines. United States Merchant Mariners operated the ship. The United States Navy Armed Guard, who manned the ship's guns, worked as signalmen and radiomen. She made two Pacific cruises, beginning July 10, 1945 to Manus Island, and the second starting August 30, 1945 to Guam, Saipan and Hawaii. The trip to Guam was to bring food to the island. On the way Lane Victory sailed through a typhoon and was tossed around for 14 days. On February 27, 1946 her second voyage ended. With the end of World War II, she started shipping aid. In March 1946 she started delivering goods to Europe under the Marshall Plan. With the end of the aid plan, on May 11, 1948 Lane Victory was laid up at Suisun Bay, California.
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