Thank you so much for the great restoration work on the Red Oak Victory. They built those great WWII ships to run well and last over time. Looking forward to visiting the ship and enjoying your pancake breakfasts. Long live the ROV and the gentlemen and women who will keep it alive and well into the centuries!

@redoakvictoryak235

6 жыл бұрын

Our first pancake breakfast fundraiser after we return will be September 9. Hope to see you there. For tickets and information: www.bit.ly/rovpancake18

Its taken 20 years of hard work by the volunteer crew of the SS Red Oak Victory (ex-USS Red Oak Victory AK 235) to reach this milestone in the ship's restoration. Congratulations

Great work everyone! I'm really proud of all that you have done! I look forward to returning to the engineering crew after I retire.

Years ago I was part of the group that went out to the Mothball Fleet to get parts and equipment for the radio room. I drove a truckload of parts from the Mothball docks back to Richmond to the ship. Times changed and I drifted from ham radio and visiting the ship. Great to see the progress that I truly though would likely never happen. Hope to come with my buddy that got me involved and visit the ship someday.

@redoakvictoryak235

6 жыл бұрын

You are certainly welcome any time!

Great to see. Thanks to all who contributed to this effort. I served on a Victory ship 1970-1971 USN. Originally SS Escanaba Victory, converted into a refrigerated stores ship in 1953 and commissioned as the USS Regulus (AF-57). Homeported San Francisco/Alameda it served with distinction in the Pacific fleet until being run aground and destroyed by typhoon Rose in Hong Kong, August 1971. Though a radioman, we were were short staffed in engine room during our WestPac deployment and I served a few weeks doing engine room watches (MMOW) reading gauges and crawling down "shaft alley" to make sure all the bearings were being lubricated. Hot as hell, but an impressive piece of machinery. I look forward to visiting the Red Oak Victory. Where will it be docked?

@redoakvictoryak235

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your service! I hope you can come visit us some day and share some sea stories.

I hope this is in the SS united state's future

@gearheaddave9639

3 жыл бұрын

that ship will never sail again

@raymondleggs5508

3 жыл бұрын

@@gearheaddave9639 year old comment party pooper

@daltonlorow8294

11 ай бұрын

@@gearheaddave9639 sadly I also agree on that..

Great to see she's still got a pulse. Perhaps one day her blades will spin again. I'd love to see her underway in years to come.

@redoakvictoryak235

6 жыл бұрын

That is our goal and the reason we are doing this work on the engines. Thank you for your interest in the ship!

@raymondleggs5508

4 жыл бұрын

the propeller turned just a little in one shot.

This ship came out of moth balls in Oct 1966 for use in Nam. I worked for Albina Engine and Machine, Port Land Oregon, in the yard as a machinist reactivating it. Upon reactivation I worked as Fireman, Water Tender and Oiler dock side, along with doing dock and river trials along with 13 other Victory ships. I have company documentation in my name to that effect on the Red Oak Victory as well as 13 other Victory ships I was on. I do not know when it went back into moth balls. Don Benson Central Machine _ _ _ Fabrication centralmachinefab dot co&

@fredklink4492

4 жыл бұрын

Don, thanks for that bit of history. The ship went into the mothball fleet in Suisun Bay in 1968. Last year's light off ended 50 years of inactivity.