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Liberty Ships
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Liberty Ship Models and Kits
HOBBY WORLD OF MONTREAL
S.S JEREMIAH O'BRIEN - Slop Chest
Hobbyweb.Com
The Model Dockyard
Rocky Mountain Shipyard
"Project Liberty Shipis a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the Liberty Ship JOHN W. BROWN as a living Memorial to the men and women of American industry who built the great Liberty Fleet and to the merchant seamen and Naval Armed Guards who sailed the ships across all the oceans of the world."
This was the first, quite some time before the above, SS John W. Brown site on the Internet. Maintained by the Massachusetts Maritime Academy's Captain Jerome F. McGourthy these brief pages give the history, and provide images, of the only other operational World War II built Liberty Ship, berthed in Baltimore.
SS Jeremiah O'Brien Maintained by volunteer Able Bodied [AB] Seaman Marty Wefald these fact filled pages detail the last surviving World War II built Liberty Ship that was at D-Day, 6 June 1944 and re-visited 6 June 1994. Berthed in San Francisco at Fisherman's Wharf - Pier 45, this fully operational steamship is completely maintained and operated by volunteers. On her 1994 D-Day voyage, most of the crew members were ages seventy to ninety!
"Last of the Liberty Ships The day she was built, she was expendable. The Navy wanted only one voyage out of her to call her a success. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called her and all her kind ''dreadful looking objects.'' The press delighted in calling them all the ''American ugly ducklings.''
"During World War II, the Brunswick shipyards at the edge of the East River, bustled with activity critical to America's war efforts. Between 1943 and 1945, the shipyard built and launched some 99 of these 447-foot cargo vessels. ............ ........... ........ Today, a 23-foot, scale replica of a Liberty Ship can be examined on the grounds of the Welcome Center on US 17 at the foot of the St. Simons causeway. Additional information on the Liberty Ships is available inside the Center."
"Sail With a Mainer on Maine-built Ships during World War Two. ...Share the adventures of a young graduate of Castine's Maine Maritime Academy aboard South Portland-built Liberty Ships plunging through storms and U-boat infested waters on the dreaded run to Murmansk in Northern Russia and in other convoys to deliver priceless food, clothing, medicine, tanks, locomotives and munitions to our Allies in England and Scotland and in the Mediterranean. " Liberty Ships Eastward. " One hundred and twelve pages, drawings, photographs, maps, bibliography, index, CIP. Illustrated with original drawings & watercolors by the author, George Elliott. ... ISBN 0-931675-02-2 - USD$12.50."
" One of the largest dive centers on the Eastern seaboard is located on the waters of Historic Beaufort. We invite you to venture to the ocean floor to experience for yourself the mystery and beauty of the sunken vessels on one of our 7 exclusive dive charter boats. There are numerous W.W.II ships that were victims of German submarines as well as ........" Dive Sites Example: SS Parker, 30-55' deep, Liberty Ship, USD$30.00.
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