Philippines Victory was assigned to Alcoa Steamship Company under a standard WSA operating agreement at that time.

[7] She was laid up for a short time in 1946 at Suisun Bay in California as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, until sold in 1947.

[8] On June 30, 1952, while on a voyage from Antwerp to the Matadi, she collided with the French steamship Granville near the Casquets—a group of rocks off Alderney in the English Channel.

In the collision, which occurred under fog, the bows of the French ship cut into a hold of Mahenge containing a shipment of matches, which caught fire.

[9][10][11] In 2007 divers found what they believe to be Mahenge, standing upright on the sea floor with a slight list to port and the derricks still intact.