USS Belmont (AGTR-4)
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 United States
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| Name: | SS Iran Victory |
| Namesake: | Iran |
| Owner: | War Shipping Administration |
| Operator: | Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company |
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| Laid down: | 25 January 1944 |
| Launched: | 24 March 1944 |
| Completed: | 4 May 1944 |
| Fate: | Transferred to US Navy February 1963, renamed USS Belmont |
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United States
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| Name: | USS Belmont (AGTR-4) |
| Owner: | US Navy |
| Operator: | US Navy |
| Acquired: | February 1963 |
| Commissioned: | 2 November 1964 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 January 1970 |
| Struck: | 16 January 1970 |
| Homeport: | Norfolk, Virginia |
| Fate: | scrapped, 24 June 1970 |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship |
| Tonnage: | 7612 GRT, 4,553 NRT |
| Displacement: | 15,200 tons |
| Length: | 455 ft (139 m) |
| Beam: | 62 ft (19 m) |
| Draught: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 8,500 shp (6,300 kW) |
| Propulsion: | HP & LP turbines 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 as Victory ship. * 318 as USS Belmont |
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USS Belmont (AGTR-4/AG-167) was a Belmont-class technical research ship (a class of US spy ships of the early Cold War), acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1963 and converted for the task of conducting "research in the reception of electromagnetic propagations" (electronic signals intelligence gathering). She was originally built during World War II as a Victory cargo ship named SS Iran Victory by the War Shipping Administration's Emergency Shipbuilding program under cognizance of the U.S. Maritime Commission.
SS Iran Victory was laid down on 25 January 1944 at Portland, Oregon, by the Oregon Shipbuilding Co. under a Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 94) (1010) as a merchant marine naval cargo ship one of many Victory ship. She was launched on 25 March 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Peter Hegge; and delivered to the Maritime Commission on 23 April 1944. The Maritime Commission then turned her over to a civilian contractor, the Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company, for operation. The cargo ship continued operations, manned by a civilian crew provided by a series of contractors, until she was laid up at Astoria, Oregon, with the National Defense Reserve Fleet sometime between April 1954 and April 1955.
On 20 October 1944 the SS Iran Victory had the dangerous job of delivering ammunition for troops. The ammunition was for the US Central Philippine Attack Force. She was in convoy of ship that held up a Kossol Roads in Oct. of 1944, till needed. The convoy of ships included: ammunition ships: Meridian Victory, Iran Victory, Bluefield Victory and Kishwaukee and escorted by the destroyer escorts: Lovelace, Neuendorf, Thomason, under the command of Comcortdiv Thirty-Seven.
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