Tufts Victory, official number 247512, was assigned to American Mail Line, under a standard WSA operating agreement at that time.

The ship's United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number 771.

Tufts Victory was converted from a cargo ship to a troopship to bring troops home after the war as part of Operation Magic Carpet.

Later she was used to bring the US soldiers home as part of Operation Magic Carpet from port cities known as Cigarette Camps.

In 1962 she was sold to the Far Eastern Navigation Corporation of Keelung, Taiwan and renamed SS Chun Lee.

In 1918 she was seized by United States Government 20 March 1918 at New York under the right of angary for World War I uses as a military transport, for troops, good and then 550 horses.