After being briefly laid up in the U.S. Claymont Victory was purchased by Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschapppij of the Netherlands and renamed Mariekerk. In 1966 she was sold to Kavo Compañia Naviera S.A., of Greece and renamed Kavo Longos. She was scrapped at Whampoa Dock, Hong Kong, in 1971.
After being briefly laid up in the U.S., SS Claymont Victory was purchased in 1947 by Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschapppij (the United Netherlands Navigation Company) of The Hague and renamed Mariekerk.[3] In 1966 she was sold to Kavo Compañia Naviera S.A. of Greece, and registered in Monrovia as Kavo Longos. In 1971 she was scrapped at Whampoa Dock, Hong Kong.
See also
SS Maritime Victory, a similar VC2-S-AP2 Victory ship conversion into a dedicated troopship
^APPENDIX B: VICTORY TROOPSHIP CONVERSIONS [3]Archived 2013-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Compiled from Roland W. Charles, Troopships of World War II (Washington, DC: The
Army Transportation Association, 1947), Appendix E, pp. 356-357
^GODBOUT v. EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINES, Inc. [4]
"The United States, as the owner of the S.S. Claymont Victory, and the Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc., as operating agent"
^Pittsfield Berkshire Evening Eagle August 28, 1945 [5] “The Pittsfield soldiers who arrived this morning at 8:30 at Commonwealth pier in Boston on the S.S. Claymont Victory are..."