On 27 Nov. 27 1945 in Saigon the Merchant Marine seamen of the ship SS Taos Victory , SS Georgetown Victory , SS Winchester Victory and SS Kingsport Victory held a joint meeting aboard the Taos Victory . The meeting was about if American Merchant Seamen should support French Indochina Colonial actions . To quote : '' " THAT WHEREAS , we . as loyal American Merchant Seamen fought and sacrificed for the democratic principles and ideals as outlined at the Teheran , Yalta and San Francisco conferences , to which our country was a signatory ; and whereas our Government continues to charter American owned and operated , ships flying the American flag to a foreign government , in this instance , the British Government . At which government , in turn , is permitting the French Government to transport French Colonial Combat Troops to Indochina for the purpose of suppressing the attempts of the native population to establish a free and democratic government of its own choosing , a right that has been guaranteed them at all the Three conferences . " AND WHEREAS , the fact that these troops are equipped with American weapons , clothing and food , that are being transported on American ships by American seamen , make it appear in the eyes of the native populations that our Government is carrying out the imperialist policies of the French and British And then this one : " AND WHEREAS , we , as American Merchant Seamen , as far back as 1936 . attempted by strikes and protest to bring before the American public the then dangerous policy that our government was following in allowing certain selfish and greedy vested interests to sell and ship guns , cotton , oil and scrap iron to Japan . Our protests and strikes against this policy were condemned by this powerful and reactionary group . " She departed Sydney with 1400 troops steaming to Glasgow in the United Kingdom . She stopped for water and fuel at Fremantle in Australia , Colombo in Sri Lanka and Aden in Yemen via the Suez Canal . On April 30 , 1946 , just before midnight , '' Georgetown Victory '' ran aground hard , at near top speed , 100 yards south of Killard Point , in County Down , Northern Ireland , north of Ballyhornan . All of the 1400 Royal Navy and Royal Marines aboard were rescued by life boats and breeches buoy to a tug started at about 5.00 am . The wreck was close to shore so some men waded ashore through heavy fuel oil and were cared for in nearby homes . The Irish Cloughey and Newcastle lifeboats were launched on the afternoon of 1 May to help . Winter storms later broke the wreck into two parts . Later , all remaining portable gear not already taken by looters was removed and the ship abandoned . The ship sections were salvaged in 1951 and consigned to the ship-breakers at Troon in Scotland . Parts of the ship are still at , where she ran aground , now a dive site
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SS Georgetown Victory