SS Chanute Victory served as a troop ship in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during World War II.

Just before the end of the war, the Chanute Victory's Captain Larz Neilson steamed out of New York City to take new troops to Europe.

But, three day out she was told to turn around and go home, back up the East River, as the war was nearing an end in Europe.

[3][4][5] Some of her noted trips: Chanute Victory returned 1,403 Army veterans to San Francisco from Yokohama, Japan on Jan. 24, 1946.

[7] December 1946 she sailed from Piraeus, Greece to Genoa, Italy, then to Lisbon, Portugal picking up troops and returning them to New York.