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]

References

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

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[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.

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