. . . "Carroll Victory"@en . . "138684.0"^^ . . . . "title"@en . . . . . . . "Carroll Victory"@en . "7612"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "1944-08-31"^^ . . "1117696789"^^ . "SS Carroll Victory"@en . . . "7100"^^ . "15200"^^ . . . "Typical Victory ship"@en . . "VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship"@en . . . "Scrapped, 1994" . "The SS Carroll Victory was the twenty-seventh Victory ship built during the World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. It was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on June 13, 1944, and completed on August 31, 1944. The ship was named after Carroll, Iowa. The ship\u2019s United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3 with a hull number 27 (V-27). It was operated by the Lykes Brothers Steamship Company and it served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. The Carroll was one of the new 10,500-ton class ship known as Victory ships that were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. Unlike Liberty ships, Victory ships were designed to last longer and serve the US Navy after the war. The Victory ships differed from Liberty ships in that they were faster, longer and wider, taller, had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure, and had a long raised forecastle. From 1945 to 1947 the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Brethren Service Committee of the Church of the Brethren sent livestock to war-torn countries. These \"seagoing cowboys\" made about 360 trips on 73 different ships. The Heifers for Relief project was started by the Church of the Brethren in 1942; in 1953 this became Heifer International. The SS Carroll Victory was one of these ships, known as cowboy ships, as she moved livestock across the Atlantic Ocean. In the summer of 1946 she took horses and hay bales to Poland. In November 1946, she delivered a number of horses to Kavalla, Greece. From Greece she steamed to Africa and picked up a new load of horses, then steamed on to Haifa in Palestine. Carroll Victory moved horses, heifers, and mules as well as a some chicks, rabbits, and goats. In 1948 she was operated by the Sword Line Inc. for one year for post war work. In 1949 she was transferred to Mobile, Alabama, and served as a US Coast Guard ship. After completing her US Coast Guard work in she was moved to the James River in Virginia as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet."@en . . "1944-03-28"^^ . . . "SS Carroll Victory"@en . "Transferred toUnited States Coast Guard, 1949" . . . . "RedOakVictory-2013-07-20.jpg"@en . . "Transferred to United States Coast Guard, 1949"@en . . "United States"@en . . . . . . . . "*1 \u00D7 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber gun\n*1 \u00D7 3 inch (76 mm)/50 caliber gun\n*8 \u00D7 20 mm Oerlikon"@en . . . . . . . . "1944-06-13"^^ . . "138.684"^^ . . "HP & LP turbines geared to a single propeller"@en . . . . . . "The SS Carroll Victory was the twenty-seventh Victory ship built during the World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. It was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on June 13, 1944, and completed on August 31, 1944. The ship was named after Carroll, Iowa. The ship\u2019s United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3 with a hull number 27 (V-27). It was operated by the Lykes Brothers Steamship Company and it served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. The Carroll was one of the new 10,500-ton class ship known as Victory ships that were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. Unlike Liberty ships, Victory ships were designed to last longer and serve the US Navy after the war. The Victory ships differed from Liberty ships in that they were faster, l"@en . . . "16.5"^^ . . . . . . "8.5344"^^ . . "Scrapped, 1994"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "62"^^ . . . "1944-03-28"^^ . "4"^^ . . . . . . . "1944-06-13"^^ . "United States Coast Guard"@en . . . . "SS Carroll Victory"@en . . . "52682108"^^ . "1944-08-31"^^ . "18.8976"^^ . . . .