SS Red Oak Victory is 1 of 3 surviving vessels in the world.

What a great piece of American history. I took a complete tour of the ship, including the engine room. It was very cool seeing how this ship was run.
Service History of the Red Oak Victory
After final outfitting, USS Red Oak Victory (AK-235) was commissioned on December 5, 1944, as a US Navy vessel. Only a very few Victory ships became Navy commissioned vessels and they were designated as either AK (auxiliary cargo ships) or AT (attack transports). The USS Red Oak Victory, as an AK, carried ammunition to supply the needs of the Pacific Fleet in World War II.
Ships of the US Pacific Fleet at Ulithi Atoll, March 1945
In January 1945, USS Red Oak Victory under command of Lieutenant Commander John S. Sayers, USNR, with a crew of 13 officers and 91 enlisted men sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge to war service in the Pacific Theater of Operations. She would not return to the United States for 18 months.
The Red Oak Victory took on a cargo of ammunition for the fleet issue at Pearl Harbor and from there sailed to Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands of the Western Pacific. Being located just 1300 miles south of Tokyo, Ulithi was the ideal forward supply base for the US Navy’s final operations of the war. Beginning in April 1945 the USS Red Oak Victory issued ammunition for the invasion of Okinawa from this base. In May she sailed to Leyte Gulf where she supported operations in the Philippines until the war ended in August of that year.

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Thank you!!!

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Loved it Paul. That old salt knows that ship!

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Yes he does

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That Hobart is a big version of a "kitchen aid". We still use these, and those steam kettles in our prison's main kitchen.

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I'm sure they are heavy duty. When I was a dishwasher, when I was young I used Hobart dishwasher. That thing cleaned dishes in one minute.