Type: Victory ship
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Built by: Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond California
Yard No: 529
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Date of completion: 1944
Length over all: 138.76 m
LPP: m
Beam: 18.9 m
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BRT: 7630, after rebuilt 9176
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Main engine: cross-compound steam turbine with double reduction gears developed 8,500 (AP3s type)
Speed: 15 kn 1944 Named: COSTA RICA VICTORY VC2-S-AP3/WSAT (1597)/USAT for the U.S. Maritime Commission Flag: United States
1947 Sold to Staat der Nederlanden, 's-Gravenhage Renamed: GROOTE BEER Flag: Netherlands
02.11.1951 Arrived at Nederlandsche Dok- & Scheepsbouw Maatschappij V.o.f., Amsterdam for rebuilt to emigrant ship
12.06.1952 Rebuit completed for explatation by N.V. Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Holland-Amerika Lijn), Rotterdam)
18.06.1952 Start Rotterdam-New York
10.01.1961 Sold to N.V. Scheepvaart Maatschappij "Trans-Oceaan", 's-Gravenhage
10.1962 In use as hotelship at Fremantle [* 07.1962 or 07.1963 Cruise from Zeebrugge (BE) to the Fjords of Norway as "GROOTE BEER"]
12.1963 Sold to Greece Renamed: MARIANNE IV Flag: Greece
06.1965 Renamed: GROOTE BEER for charter N.A.S.M. student trips
12.07.1966 Collision with dredge ship Pen Avon near Wight, slightly dammaged
09.1966 Renamed: MARIANNE IV
17.03.1967 Laid-up at Eleusis, Greece
02.10.1968 Laid-up at Piraeus
06.1970 Sold for scrap in Eleusis, Greece <nowiki>Groote Beer; گروته بیر; Groote Beer; Groote Beer; amerikanisches Schiff; victory ship of the United States; schip uit 1944; американське судно; barku den Estadonan Uni di Merka; IMO 5136581</nowiki>
Groote Beer victory ship of the United States
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