Attack on the SS Baton Rouge Victory

Attack on the SS Baton Rouge Victory Part of the Vietnam War Date August 23, 1966 Location Long Tau River, 22 miles southeast of Saigon, South Vietnam Result Viet Cong victory Belligerents Viet Cong United States Commanders and leaders Ho Xuan Canh Unknown Units involved 10th Special Operations Group SS Baton Rouge Victory Strength 20 commandos 1 freighter Casualties and losses None 1 freighter sunk 7 U.S. civilian employees killed.

The attack on the SS Baton Rouge Victory was a commando attack launched by the Viet Cong on August 26, 1966, in which they sank the Victory ship SS Baton Rouge Victory using two 2,400-pound mines^[1] while it was proceeding along the Long Tau River, about 22 miles southeast of Saigon. The attack killed seven American civilian sailors on board and was the first case of a U.S. vessel being sunk in the Saigon shipping channel by enemy action.^[2][3]

See also

• Attack on the USNS Card

References

1. (in Vietnamese) Thanh Trà, "Đặc công đánh đắm tàu Baton Rouge Victory 10.000 tấn", Xã hội Thông tin, retrieved on 26-8-2014.
2. Stephen Schwartz, "Remembering Vietnam's Forgotten Seamen", San Francisco Chronicle, October 20, 1997.
3. Culver, John A., CAPT USNR "A time for Victories" United States Naval Institute Proceedings February 1977 pp. 50-56.