SS Navajo Victory

SS Navajo Victory was a cargo ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program.

[2] Navajo Victory was christened by Mrs. Tom Price, wife of the general manager of Kaiser Shipyards; the matron of honor was Mrs. Frank Backman.

On October 18, 1944, it entered Palau with another cargo ship, Sea Pike, escorted by a Marshall Islands-based destroyer, USS Brackett, for protection.

[4] On November 29, 1944, Navajo Victory and Sea Pike delivered troops and supplies from Ewa Villages, Hawaii, to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323.

[5] Navajo Victory also delivered supplies for the liberation of The Philippines,[6] and for the USS Floyd County, an American tank landing ship.

[13][14] On April 16, 1953, Navajo Victory received a distress call from the motor ship Menestheus, a 7,800-ton British freighter.