page_title: SS Whittier Victory
section_title: Vietnam War
hierarchical_section_title: SS Whittier Victory / History / Vietnam War
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the engine room
context_page_description: SS Whittier Victory was a Victory ship which saw brief service in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the waning months of World War II and Vietnam War from 1966–1969. Built in June 1945, she carried ammunition and other cargo from U.S. West Coast ports to Southeast Asia, then ferried cargo, equipment and troops back to the U.S. after the war ended. She survived one hurricane. Whittier Victory spent time between 1946 and 1966 chartered to commercial carriers and the two times in U.S. reserve fleets. From 1966 to 1969 she delivered cargo to Southeast Asia in the Vietnam War.
context_section_description: Whittier Victory was removed from the reserve fleet in 1966 and chartered to ferry military equipment to American forces in South Vietnam. On 28 January 1966 while getting ready to depart to the west coast and then Vietnam, while at her home port of New Orleans, a fire broke out aboard her as she was moored at her wharf in the Mississippi River. The fire caused an $6,000 of damage. The caused was found to be a overheated smokestack. She was undergoing repairs at the time most of the damage was to the smokestack Whittier Victory has the dangerous job of delivering 500 lb aerial bombs to for US Air Force B-52 bombers. It took her 21 days to travel from San Francisco to Saigon. In spring of 1968 the Whittier Victory survived repeated mortar and rocket attacks while in harbor at Newport bridge up river from Saigon. Other trips, like the one on 11 July 1968 she took supplies to Qui Nhơn in central Vietnam. In April 1969 she was put in drydock for normal use repair work. On her last trip, heading back to the USA, in August 1969, the Whittier Victory got caught in Hurricane Camille just before arriving at her home port in New Orleans. The SS Whittier Victory was removed from the reserve fleet and was taken to Tuxpan, Mexico on 14 October 1993 for scrapping.
caption: Engine room
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