USNS Adelphi

History
United States
Name	SS Adelphi Victory
Builder	Permanente Metals Yard No. 2, Richmond, California
Laid down	22 April 1945
Launched	2 June 1945
In service	27 June 1945
Out of service	1984
Identification	IMO number: 5002613
Fate	1993 scrapped in China
General characteristics
Type	Type VC2-S-AP2 Victory ship
Displacement	4,512 long tons (4,584 t) light 15,589 long tons (15,839 t) full load
Length	455 ft (139 m)
Beam	62 ft (19 m)
Draft	29 ft (8.8 m)
Propulsion	Cross-compound steam turbine 8,500 shp (6,338 kW) Single screw
Speed	15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)

USNS Adelphi (T-AG-181) was one of 12 ships scheduled to be acquired by the United States Navy in February 1966 and converted into Forward Depot Ships for service with the Military Sea Transport Service. The SS Adelphi Victory (MCV-760) was chosen for this conversion and assigned the name Adelphi, but the program was cancelled and the ships were not acquired by the Navy. She was built under the Emergency Shipbuilding program for World War II.

For post World War II work she was operated by Marine Transport Line of San Francisco. After her post war duties in 1947 she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, in the James River. In 1966 she was removed from the Reserve Fleet and reactivated for the Vietnam War. The ship operated under commercial charter carrying supplies to Vietnam under her original name, SS Adelphi Victory. In 1973 the SS Adelphi Victory was laid up in Suisun Bay, California, as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet. In 1993 she was scrapped in China.

References

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.