SS Cody Victory

The SS Cody Victory was a Victory ship (VC2-S-AP3) built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. The ship's keel was laid by the California Shipbuilding Company as hull number 69 on 26 October 1944 with launch on 12 December 1944. The ship was completed on 22 January 1945.[2] On completion the ship, U.S. Official Number 247094, was delivered to the War Shipping Administration for operation by the Alcoa SS Company as agent.[3]

Typical Victory ship
History
United States
Name: SS Cody Victory
Namesake: Cody, Wyoming
Owner: U.S. Maritime Commission
Operator: Alcoa SS Co.
Builder: California Shipbuilding Corporation
Yard number: 69
Laid down: 26 October 1944
Launched: 15 December 1944
Completed: 22 January 1945
Identification: U.S. Official Number: 247094
Fate: Sold to Peru, 1947
Peru
Name: SS Yavari
Owner:

Corporacion Peruana de Vapores, Callao (1947—1968)

Gold Shipping, Callao (1968—1969)
Renamed: SS Naufraga, 1968
Fate: Sunk on way to scrappers, 21 March 1969
General characteristics [1]
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)
Draft: 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
Armament:
Debarking the SS Cody Victory at Pier 8, Hampton Roads, in 1945 with 2,032 troops from Leghorn and Naples, Italy

SS Cody Victory served as a troop ship in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean during World War II as part of Operation Magic Carpet. The SS Cody Victory and 96 other Victory ships were converted to troop ships to bring the US soldiers home.[4] Burt Lancaster was with the Army's Twenty-First Special Services Division on the Cody Victory on August 14, 1945, as the ship was at sea heading to Hampton Roads, Virginia, when the V-J Day announcement was made.[5] The Cody Victory boarded troops from Leghorn, Italy, on August 18, 1945, and then steamed to Naples, Italy on August 20, 1945, taking on more troops. She delivery the 2,032 troops to Hampton Roads Pier 8, including the 101st Ordnance MM Company.[6] On January 14, 1946, she arrived at New York Harbor from Marseilles, France, with 1,559 troops. On February 20, 1946, she arrived in New York Harbor from Bremerhaven, Germany, with troops.[4][7][8][9]

On April 27, 1946 was laid up in the Hudson River until sold on January 28th withdrawn February 13, 1947 and delivered to A. L. Burbank Co. pending delivery to the buyers.[3]

Private use

The ship was sold to Corporacion Peruana de Vapores, of El Callao, Peru, and renamed Yavari. In 1968, she was sold to the Gold Shipping in Callao and renamed, Naufraga. On October 14, 1968, a cargo fire broke out while she was in Los Angeles. The damage was so severe she was not repaired. She was sold to a ship breaker in Taiwan. She was filled with scrap iron in her cargo hold for the trip to Taiwan. While being towed in rough seas the scrap iron shifted in her cargo hold and she took on a heavy angle of list on March 21, 1969. She continued to take on water and sank 1,000 miles southwest of San Francisco at 27° 02'N and 137° 23' W on March 27, 1969.[10][11][12][13] [14]

References
  1. Babcock & Wilcox (April 1944). "Victory Ships". Marine Engineering and Shipping Review.
  2. Colton, Tim (April 26, 2017). "California Shipbuilding, Los Angeles CA". ShipbuildingHistory. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  3. Maritime Administration. "Cody Victory". Ship History Database Vessel Status Card. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  4. Charles, Roland W. (1947). Troopships of World War II (PDF). Washington: The Army Transportation Association. pp. 356–357. LCCN 47004779. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  5. Burt Lancaster: An American Life, By Kate Buford, page
  6. skylighters.org, Names of All U.S. Victory Ships
  7. Our Troop Ships
  8. Milford W. Crumplar, Corporal
  9. Lud Lekson Collection
  10. Victcoy ship list
  11. Historia y Arqueología Marítima
  12. Photo Yavari
  13. Marina Mercante Peru, Yavari, in the Panama Canal
  14. wrecksite, SS Yavarí (+1969)

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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