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	Liberty ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 27 March 1941, the number of lend-lease ships was increased to 200 by the Defense Aid Supplemental Appropriations Act, and increased again in April to 306, of which 117 would be Liberty ships.
		Another notable Liberty ship was SS Stephen Hopkins, which sank a German commerce raider in a ship-to-ship gun battle in 1942 and became the first American ship to sink a German surface combatant.
		The ships were built in great haste, often by inexperienced people, in the era before embrittlement effects on steel were well understood; they were frequently grossly overloaded; and some of the problems occurred during or after severe storms at sea that would have placed any ship at risk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberty_ship (1401 words)

	Liberty ships: World War 2 merchant marine
		When the Liberty ships were first put into production, it was thought that if they made it to their destination they had paid their way, making it back would be a bonus.
		When the weather was making, the Liberty ship did not slice through the seas with the eagerness of the destroyers that hunted on the edges of the convoys.
		The Liberty ship may not have garnered the affection of the men who sailed them, but she did earn their respect.
	wvwv.essortment.com /libertyshipsme_pbv.htm (818 words)

	LIBERTY & VICTORY SHIP HISTORY
		The greatest percentage of ships was built on the West Coast, predominantly at the San Francisco Bay and Colombus River yards of Henry J. Kaiser.
		American Liberty ships were all named after prominent citizens of the great republic; some two hundred of them manned by the British were prefixed Sam....
		It had taken about 225 to 230 days to build the early Liberty ships at a cost of $1.78 million each and took about one million work hours, but the average time of construction rapidly dropped to around forty-two days, although the more usual time was sixty.
	www.angelfire.com /in/shiphistory/libvicship.html (2135 words)

	Liberty Ship scratchbuilt in1/350
		The Liberty Ship as a modelling subject, specifically stems from a tour I took of the SS Jeremiah O'Brien which is berthed in San Francisco harbour.
		etch ladders and ship's whistle (or is it a horn?).
		Ships anchor chains were sourced from a defunct piece of jewelry, (no, not my wife's), with the anchors themselves being scratchbuilt from plastic strip and stretched sprue.
	smmlonline.com /articles/libertyship/libertyship.html (1903 words)

	Liberty Ship Memorial, Portland Oregon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Liberty Ships crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean, and they made the dreaded run through the northern seas past Norway to Murmansk, Russia.
		The Liberty ship John N Teal, pictured here, was completed just ten days after its keel was laid.
		The sturdy utilatarian Liberty ships had a cruising speed of 10.5 knots and a dead weight capacity of 10,800 tons.
	www.oakgrovedesigns.net /homepage/libships (471 words)

	USS Liberty Memorials
		The ship's bell is displayed with honor at assemblies and sports events by the school NROTC unit.
		Liberty Park at Goodfellow AFB in Texas was created by the Center for Cryptology Detachment as a proper home for USS Liberty's original commissioning plaque, which is displayed there.
		The ship's original flag, which flew on June 8, 1967, was flown during the ceremony, and was later installed in a special memory display at the Agency.
	www.ussliberty.com /memorial.htm (1135 words)

	Naval Institute Proceedings: Friendless Fire? by David C. Walsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On 8 June 1967 the electronic intelligence ship USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was on station in international waters 13 miles off the Sinai Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean.
		The Liberty's blood-stained flag is exhibited at the National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Maryland.
		Later, despite jamming of the ship's distress frequencies, and before all her transmitters were shot away, the Liberty's radio operators managed again to hear the attackers make a positive identification in the clear.
	www.usni.org /proceedings/Articles03/PROwalsh06.htm (1321 words)

	Liberty Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Maine's one Liberty shipyard was the combined East and West yards of the New England Shipbuilding Corp. in South Portland.
		Her commander was Capt. George Jahn, 78, who captained a Liberty ship at Normandy in 1944, and a crew of veterans - average age about 70.
		The return of the 51-year-old ship with its 70-year-old crew to the port where it was born is guaranteed to call up deep personal responses, says Edward Langlois, President of the South Portland Shipyard Society, himself a veteran of the yards.
	www.cascobay.com /history/libship/libship.htm (1527 words)

	THE LIBERTY SHIP:
		Liberty Ships were operated by private shipping companies on behalf of the US government.
		A standardized design allowed for interchangeable parts, and the ability to exchange parts in foreign ports was particularly beneficial to the ship's operation.(24) The uniformity of the Liberty Ship made it possible to make a "new" ship by joining the parts of two ships.
		Reports on the total number of Liberty Ships built vary due to confusion surrounding the various modified versions of the ship.
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	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-WW2 Liberty Ships - The Bridge of Steel - Spanning the Atlantic - Linking Britain to America-
		In lieu of the older method of riveting sections of the ship together, all the Liberty ships were constructed by the use of welding techniques.
		Each ship contained 600,000 feet of welded joints, and of all the labouring hours needed to build one Liberty Ship, 1/3 of them were taken up by the welding crews.
		The second, SS John Brown is in Baltimore, and Project Liberty Ship is dedicated to preserving this last such ship on the east coast of America.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/WW2LibertyShips-TheBridge.html (1188 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Armament for the new ship class was similar to that on Liberty ships, and included one 5-inch stern gun, one 3-inch bow antiaircraft gun and eight 20-mm machine guns at various locations on main, boat and bridge decks for protection from enemy attacks.
		Regardless of their differences, both Liberty and Victory class ships and tankers were vitally important to America’s war efforts on both fronts during World War II and decisively contributed to the ultimate Allied victory.
		Victory ships were at the forefront of the resurgence of the United States as a world economic power and became the “workhorses” of American waterborne commerce after the war.
	www.americanvictory.org /History/history.htm (772 words)

	Liberty ship is labor of love - Delaware Coast Press - delmarvanow.com
		Agnew joined his Þrst Liberty ship, the SS Rachel Jackson, at an Army base in Charleston, S.C. and, after the ship was loaded, they sailed to Bristol, England to deliver much-needed construction material to wartime British allies who had been at war since 1939.
		The Liberty ships, based on a British plan modiÞed to conform to U.S. practices and make full use of mass production methods, could be built quickly.
		About 2,500 of the Liberty Ships survived the war but now, over 60 years later, only "The Brown" in Baltimore and a ship on the California coast remain.
	www.delmarvanow.com /deweybeach/stories/20051026/2216000.html (1217 words)

	National Liberty Ship Memorial -- S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien -- The Last Liberty
		The ships of such a merchant marine must be built so that they could be converted to naval auxiliaries in a war or national emergency.
		Initially dubbed the "Ocean" class, the ship was rated at 10,000 deadweight tons with a 2,500 horsepower engine that produced a speed of 10 knots.
		Trying to change the public's image of the new emergency ship, which was soon to be the mainstay of American ship construction, Admiral Land referred to the 200-ship order as the Liberty Fleet and declared September 27, 1941 as "Liberty Fleet Day." On that day fourteen "emergency" ships were launched across the nation.
	www.ssjeremiahobrien.org /lastliberty.html (2055 words)

	Portland's Liberty Ship Memorial Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When over 100 liberty ships were scrapped following the Second World War, the concrete encased steel bows could not be reused.
		The Liberty ship Joseph N. Teal was completed just ten days after its keel was laid.
		The sturdy utilitarian Liberty ships had a cruising speed of 10.5 knots and a dead weight capacity of 10,800 tons.
	www.indiodesign.com /libertyshippark (258 words)

	LIBERTY SHIPS
		Numerous pictures of Liberty ships and their crews can be found at the site of the US Navy Armed Guard WWII Veterans.
		Conventional wisdom has it that the Liberty ship was the first mass produced ship using prefabrication.
		Researchers interested in the fracture problem of Liberty ships might like to be aware of the following collection at the Mariners Museum, Newport News, VA: "Documents relating to US Merchant Marine," presented to the Mariners' Museum by James E. Moss, 1964.
	www.fiu.edu /~thompsop/liberty/liberty1.html (550 words)

	USS LIBERTY
		Unfortunately, the ship was not moved and by the time the message arrived the ship was taking on water." The agenda for the meeting can be found at http://www.afei.org/brochure/3af3/.
		Bob Casale, a plank owner of the USS Liberty has posted an album of pictures of the Liberty's commissioning, it's first cruise, including some pictures of the officers and chiefs, and some of the reunions.
		The USS DAVIS (DD-937) was the first ship on the scene after the attack to assist the USS Liberty.
	home.cfl.rr.com /gidusko/liberty (4882 words)

	The Liberty Ship, the T-2 ... and the World's Largest Tanker
		That day, 14 ships were launched from dawn until dusk at U.S. shipyards from coast to coast as part of the President's $350 million emergency ship construction program.
		Among the ships was the Patrick Henry, the first of the new Liberty Ship Class.
		In all, more than 2,700 Liberty Ships were built for the war effort.
	www.marinelog.com /DOCS/cen4.html (586 words)

	Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - SS John W. Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Designed for quick and relatively easy construction, Liberty ships made possible the massive sealift of troops, arms, and material to all theaters of the war.
		She was then returned to the James River Reserve Fleet until acquired by Project Liberty Ship in 1988.
		She is the only operating Liberty ship on the east coast.
	www.hnsa.org /ships/jbrown.htm (313 words)

	Liberty Ship Model Resource Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		North liberty, liberty ship, life liberty and the pursuit of all.
		for the ship Liberty, built in 1874 by George Thomas of Quincy, Massachusetts, is attributed to Herbert Gleason.
		A Liberty Ship in the Baltimore Docks A Liberty Ship in the Baltimore Docks Night by the Round...
	www.all-liberty.info /find/libertyshipmodel (1309 words)

	The Attack On Liberty (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On June 8, 1967, in one of the periodic explosions of violence we've learned to expect in the Middle East, an American intelligence ship named the USS Liberty was attacked with rockets, cannon fire and torpedoes while in international waters off the town of El Arish in the Sinai desert.
		Those speculating on reasons for Israel's attack on the Liberty have asserted it was to prevent Washington from learning of Israel's coming seizure of the Golan Heights from Syria, or to prevent disclosure of war crimes against Egyptian prisoners of war.
		Bamford uncovered a July 27, 1967, CIA report quoting an Israeli official to the effect that Israel knew who the Liberty was and what she was doing, but was unsure who besides the United States might have access to the ship's intercepts, so it put the Liberty out of commission just to be sure.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A8861-2003Jan31¬Found=true (2924 words)

	The S.S. Samuel Heintzelman Liberty Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One book that listed the names of liberty ships and their ultimate fate said "Disappeared" next to the listing for the SS Samuel Heintzelman.
		The tragedy of the Heintzelman was that the families knew nothing of the fate of their lost loved ones.
		I have a personal interest in what happened to the ship because the official MIA letter regarding my uncle, Stewart Andersen, lists the SS Samuel Heintzelman as the ship to which he was assigned.
	www.ericsandersen.com /heintzelman (991 words)

	Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II
		Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II Liberty ship was the name given to the EC2 type ship designed for "Emergency" construction by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II.
		Liberty ships were named after prominent (deceased) Americans, starting with Patrick Henry and the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
		Two Liberty ships, the SS Jeremiah O'Brien in San Francisco and the SS John W. Brown in Baltimore, survive as "museum ships" open to the public for tours and occasional cruises.
	www.usmm.org /libertyships.html (5961 words)

	S.S JEREMIAH O'BRIEN
		It is the only ship that participated in the Normandy invasions that returned fifty years later to take part in the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
		The Jeremiah O'Brien is supported by Contributions and Membership in the National Liberty Ship Memorial.
		The Liberty ship is being maintained by volunteer crew members.
	www.geocities.com /jeremiahobrien/obrien.html (306 words)

	U.S. Merchant Ships Sunk or Damaged in World War II
		U.S. Merchant Ships Sunk or Damaged in World War II Merchant Ships Sunk or Damaged in World War II According to the War Shipping Administration, the U.S. Merchant Marine suffered the highest rate of casualties of any service in World War II.
		Officially, a total of 1,554 ships were sunk to due to war conditions, including 733 ships of over 1,000 gross tons.
		Victory Ships and Tankers; the history of the "Victory" type cargo ships and of the tankers built in the United States of America during World War II, L. Sawyer and W. Mitchell.
	www.usmm.org /shipsunkdamaged.html (1029 words)

	USS LIBERTY Memorial
		This web site is dedicated to the memory of thirty-four fine young men who gave their lives on June 8, 1967, defending the USS Liberty against a sustained air and sea attack by the armed forces of the State of Israel.
		Israel claims they mistook our ship for the out-of-service Egyptian horse carrier El Quseir and that we brought the attack upon ourselves by operating in a war zone without displaying a flag.
		Joe was a signalman on the bridge during the attack and is a former chairman and president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association
	www.ussliberty.com (1295 words)

	Liberty Ship R/C Club
		Also critical to the success of this organization are those that are willing to answer questions and offer sound advice about all aspects of getting a Liberty off the ways and into service.
		Each member with a ship will be listed by name as the Captain, their location (grouped by state), a brief on your ship with optional pictures and the channel you will be operating on.
		You're not alone anymore in your quest for a working Liberty Ship with regional convoys to sail in.
	libertyships.org (370 words)

	Project Liberty Ship
		His papers include discharge slips and shipping company documents that account for more than 30 voyages that do not appear in the CDBs.
		SS BJARNE A. He was Master of a number of Moore-McCormack vessels and later for the "Steel" line of vessels belonging to Isthmian Lines.
		Models of two of Isthmian's "Steel" vessels were on prominent display at the Seafarer's International Union (SIU) Union Hall in Brooklyn, because they were the 'state of the art' merchant vessels of their day.
	www.liberty-ship.com /html/people/plakias.html (869 words)

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		Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution
		The Liberty Incident: 1967 Israeli Atack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship
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