[3] She was operated by Merchants & Miners Transportation Company charter with the United States Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration.
The Lewis Emery Jr. departed New York Harbor on 18 November 1943 in position 61, the first ship in the sixth column, as part of a convoy to Scotland and Murmansk.
The control of Victory Carriers had been the result of a settlement by Mr. [Aristotle] Onassis of criminal and civil litigation instituted against him by the United States Department of Justice in the early nineteen fifties.
In 1955 Mr. Onassis settled his dispute with the Government by paying $7 million and placing Victory Carriers in a trust for the benefit of his American born children.
[6]On 24 January 1955, shortly before noon, the Lewis Emery Jr. collided with another Liberty ship, the SS George E. Long, in a dense fog off Coos Bay Bar, Oregon.