High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The USS Venus (AK-135) was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. Originally liberty ship SS William Williams (named after William Williams a signer of the Declaration of Independence), it was taken over by the Navy after damaged by a torpedo attack and renamed after the planet Venus. It was the only ship of the Navy to bear this name. SS William Williams was laid down on 5 July 1942 under a Maritime Commission contract (MCE hull 263) by Permanente Metals Corporation, Yard No. 2, Richmond, California; launched on 21 August; sponsored by Mrs. Paul S. Marrin; was delivered to her owners, the Isthmian Steamship Lines, on 8 September; and operated in the Pacific for the remainder of 1942 and into 1943.The ship was commanded by Captain William Robinson Freeman Sr. up until the time she was torpedoed.

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