USNS Adelphi

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.

History
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 [1]
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)

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 remove 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.[2]

References

1. Priolo, Gary P. (2006). "Miscellaneous Auxiliary T-AG-181 Adelphi". navsource.org. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
2. MARINERS, THE WEBSITE OF THE MARINERS, VICTORY SHIPS - A

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