She was a type VC2-S-AP2/WSAT cargo ship with the United States Maritime Commission (MCV) -"Victory"; hull number 653, shipyard number 1597 and built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland, she was laid down on 8 March 1945.

[7] During the same month she took 1,400 troops home form Morotai in Indonesia to Australia[8] On 20 January 1946 Georgetown Victory departed Labuan in East Malaysia and delivered troops to Rabaul in Papua New Guinea on 28 January 1946.

The meeting was about if American Merchant Seamen should support French Indochina Colonial actions.

She stopped for water and fuel at Fremantle in Australia, Colombo in Sri Lanka and Aden in Yemen via the Suez Canal.

On April 30, 1946, just before midnight, Georgetown Victory ran aground hard, at near top speed, 100 yards south of Killard Point, in County Down, Northern Ireland, north of Ballyhornan.

The following day, many fishing boats from the local community cmae to 'loot' the S.S Georgetown and the Royal Ulster Constabulary and authorities contained all the inventory of the ship.

[13] The wreck was close to shore so some men were waded ashore with Eric and were brought to the aerodrome.