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Created: 2018-11-05 9:30:53 AM
Last Edited: 2023-09-28 11:38:46 PM

Pioneer Challenger	American Victory	Gulfoil (1954/11)	Pioneer Challenger (1961/07/16)
Middletown (1975)	Middletown (1979)	Middletown (1983/03/01)	Middletown (1985/08)
Middletown (1991/04)	Middletown (1991/06/30)	Middletown (1996/08)	Middletown (2001)
Middletown (2001/04)	Middletown (2001/06)	Middletown (2004)	American Victory (2006/06/24)
American Victory (2006/12/10)	American Victory (2007/07/09)	Victo (2018/06/21)	Victo (2018/06/21)
Victo (2018/06/21)	Victo (2018/06/21)

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Details/Construction
Builder:	Bethlehem Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company	Location:	Sparrows Point, Maryland	Hull #:	4381
Design:	T3-S-A1
Keel Layed:		Launched:	1942/10/31	Commissioned:	1943/02/20

Propulsion
Year: 1961	Type:	1 Steam turbine engine	Output:	7700 shp (5663 kW) - 14.0 knots
	Manufacturer:	Bethlehem Steel Company - Quincy, Massachusetts, USA

Dimensions
As built	Length (oa):	152.9 m (501.67 ft)	Gross Tonnage:	10340
	Length (lbp):		Net Tonnage:	6301
	Beam:	20.7 m (68.0 ft)	Dead Weight:	16100
	Depth:	11.3 m (37.0 ft)	Displacement:
	Draft:
Year: 1961	Length (oa):	222.51 m (730.0 ft)	Gross Tonnage:	13232
	Length (lbp):		Net Tonnage:	9464
	Beam:	22.86 m (75.0 ft)	Dead Weight:	27112
	Depth:	11.89 m (39.0 ft)	Displacement:
	Draft:
	Change Description:	Rebuild and converted to a Great Lakes bulk freighter by Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, using a new midbody built by Verolme United Shipyards (Rotterdam, Netherlands).
Year: 1982	Length (oa):	222.54 m (730.1 ft)	Gross Tonnage:	13167
	Length (lbp):	218.22 m (715.9 ft)	Net Tonnage:	9487
	Beam:	22.99 m (75.4 ft)	Dead Weight:	27112
	Depth:	11.97 m (39.3 ft)	Displacement:
	Draft:	13.767 m (45.2 ft)
	Change Description:	Converted to a self-unloader by Bay Shipbuilding (Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin).

Owner History

Fleet History

Owner	Manager	From	Until
U.S. Maritime Administration		1943/01	1943/02
United States Navy		1943/02	1947
Gulf Oil Company		1947	1959
Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Company		1959	1960
Pioneer Steamship Company - Cleveland, Ohio	Hutchinson & Company	1960	1962
Columbia Transportation Company - Cleveland, Ohio	Oglebay Norton Company	1962	2006
American Steamship Company - Buffalo, New York		2006	2018

Fleet	From	Until
United States Navy	1943/02	1945
Gulf Oil Corporation - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	1947	1959/08
Pioneer Steamship Company - Cleveland, Ohio	1961/07	1962
Oglebay Norton Company - Cleveland, Ohio	1962	2006
American Steamship Company - Buffalo, New York	2006	2008/11/12

Name History

Registration History

Name	Until
Marquette	1943/02
USS Neshanic (AO-71)	1947
Gulfoil	1961
Pioneer Challenger	1962
Middletown	2006
American Victory	2017
Victo	2018
Icto	2018/09

Number	Port	Call Sign	MMSI	From	Until
US 251093	Baltimore, Maryland, United States			1943/02	1947
US 251093	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States			1947	1960
US 251093	Wilmington, Delaware, United States	WDD2877		1960	2018

Description

Named Neshanic during construction, but launched as Marquette.

Collided with the tanker S.E. Graham in the Newport, Rhode Island harbour on August 7, 1959. The S.E. Graham, loaded with 1,000,000 gallons of gasoline, resulted in an explosion that killed 15 aboard the Gulfoil. The ship was written off as a constructive loss and the damaged hull was sold to the Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Company (Baltimore, Maryland).

Disposition
Description/Location	Scrapped at Aliaga, Turkey.
Arrival at Yard	2018/09/03	Beached:	Work Began:
Lost			Date:

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