Victory Ship

The Victory ship was a type of cargo ship produced in large numbers by North American shipyards during World War II to replace losses caused by German submarines. Based on the earlier Liberty ship, 531 Victory ships were built.

Read more about Victory Ship:  VC2 Design, Construction, Status of Remaining Victory Ships

Famous quotes containing the words victory and/or ship:

    “There’s a victory and defeat—the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats—which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)