USNS Victoria (T-AK-281) was a Norwalk-class fleet ballistic missile cargo ship, which was launched as a World War II commercial Victory cargo ship SS Ethiopia Victory under the Emergency Shipbuilding program.

With the war over and her post-war work completed, on 28 July 1950 she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet in Wilmington, North Carolina.

On 24 August 1950 Ethiopia Victory was removed from the Reserve Fleet and serviced to return her to active duty for the Korean War.

Ethiopia Victory served as merchant marine ship, by the American President Lines, supplying goods for the Korean War.

About 75 percent of the personnel taking to Korea for the Korean War came by the merchant marine ships.

[5] On 18 August 1964 Ethiopia Victory was refitted to be a fleet ballistic missile cargo ship at the American Ship Building Company of Toledo, Ohio, to support fleet ballistic missile (FBM) submarine tender.