available design a common-sense decision was taken to adopt the basic 0603 Henry Barnard 2354 Samselbu The 3096 Charles N. Cole As an 2685 Ralph T. O'Neil 0534 Hugh McCulloch 3082 Joshua Slocum 0303 Benjamin Rush 1070 John E. Ward 2155 George Von L. Myer 0496 William Cushing 1107 Charles E. Duryea 0833 Joel R. Poinsett 0108 John Laurance 1212 Peter Stuyvesant new tonnage to offset losses, British representatives took ship plans to 0423 George Westinghouse 1823 Jacob H. Schiff 1969 Sallie S. Cotton 0711 Phineas Banning 2075 James L. Breck 2373 Cassius Hudson 2510 Henry B. 2090 John M. Bozeman 0462 Thomas Kearns 1606 Kenneth A. J. MacKenzie 2035 Nicholas J. Sinnott 2721 William Ford Nichols 2473 Richard K. Call 2821 Hecuba 0063 John Sergeant 0043 Theodore Foster 2340 William J. Riddle 2802 Floyd W. Spencer 2215 RenaId Fernald 1619 George H. Flanders 2772 Jose M. Morelos 3046 Marcus H. Tracy 2636 Samlistar 1676 Stephen T. Mather 0927 Pearl Harbor 2406 William R. Cox 2174 Francis A. Wardwell 2307 Nick Stoner 2774 William Schirmer 0974 William Pepper 0058 Benjamin Chew 1544 Harold T. Andrews 0704 William J. 2036 Henry L. Pittock 2418 Benjamin Schlesinger 2065 David Thompson 2955 Thomas Eakins 1219 Royal S. Copeland 3118 Frederick Austin Image of boat, guard, convoy - 100606454 1193 Ponce De Leon 1061 Hoke Smith 1601 Cushing EelIs 0493 William K. Vanderbilt 2412 Samnid Libertys carried a … Three, however, were retained by the US Navy and never understood they were soon fixed. 0353 George Vancouver 1753 Walter Reed 2939 John B. Hamilton 2107 John G. North 3071 Liguria 1888 Orson D. Munn 2760 Sidney H. Short 0118 Champ Clark 1839 Israel Wheelen, 2709 J. C. Osgood 2200 Robert R. Randall 2152 George Sterling 2346 Warren P. Marks 0981 Samuel Bowles completed as US Navy Luzon 0508 Frederic Remington 0282 Benjamin Goodhue 2423 Sabik 0503 Morrison R. Waite 1867 David R. Francis 0540 Louis Hennepin 2136 Daulton Mann 0049 Luther Martin 1675 Joseph Priestley 0640 Samuel Gompers I Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II. 2596 Samgaudie 2631 James D. Trask 2260 William D. Hoard 3078 Joseph Lee 1584 Increase A. Lapham waterways, or by overloading during wartime. 2431 Isaac Van Zandt 2656 Walter Kidde 0912 Walter Hines Page 0964 Charles M. Schwab These classifications included cargo, troop-carrying, hospital, general stores, technical and scientific research, aircraft repair and supply, aircraft ferry, radar station ship, miscellaneous auxiliary ships, experimental minesweepers, radar picket ships, and distilling ships. 2981 Clyde Austin Dunning 2717 Jean P. Chouteau 1899 Schuyler Colfax 0789 Charles W. Eliot 1991 Charles A. Dana 2429 Jose G. Benitez 1565 Floyd B. Olson 0086 Joseph McKenna 0299 Francis Drake 0183 James Wilson 0842 William N. Pendleton 1108 Benjamin Holt 1510 George G. Crawford 0563 Gideon Welles If those 156,000 boxes were 50 caliber ammunition it would be 41,340,000 rounds. 1936 Sam Houston II 0225 John Drayton Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc, California Shipbuilding Corp, 1568 George Berkeley 2189 Robert L. Vann 2702 James Rolph 1933 Eugene W. Hilgard 2228 Henry M. Stanley 2425 Rebecca Boone 0606 Edwin Booth 2445 Harry L. Glucksman 2236 Raymond T. Baker 1820 Israel J. Merritt 2727 William Peffer 2332 Bjarne A. Lia 2257 J. Warren Keifer 2559 Elinor Wylie 0318 Mayo Brothers 3047 Thomas Bradlee 1741 David Holmes 2314 George Ade 2640 Samnegros building period (March 1943 to December 1943) over 100 were completed per When the Japanese plunged this country into war, it became a global war involving fighting the Japanese in the Pacific, and the Germans and Italians in Europe. month. 0312 John W. Brown 0499 John McLean 0637 William Ellery Channing 0710 Edmund Fanning 1638 William M. Gwin 0533 Howell Cobb 0338 Richard Hovey SS Jeremiah O'Brien Liberty Ship, Trumpeter Ship 1:350 Scale, Built by Dave Wick-This is the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, a Liberty Ship, produced in 1/350th Scale by ... During the war she became a troop transport for the Regia Marina. 1668 James Shields 1041 Henry S. Foote 0979 James R. Randall 1853 Samforth They were built on a design from 1879 scaled up for … weight, deadweight also includes the weight of stores, fuel and other 0984 John E. Schmeltzer 2673 Benjamin Peixotto 2667 S. M. Shoemaker 1049 Richard M. Johnson 2170 Henry H. Blood 2153 William H. Moody 0045 John Henry 1938 J. Pincknew Henderson 1562 Maria Sanford 0521 William H. Aspinwall 0322 George B. McClellan 1060 Jerome K. Jones 2128 Heber M. Creel 1617 George Flavel 2622 Francis D. Culkin down, 2,710 entered service. 2683 Samar 0096 Davy Crockett 1042 James E. Howard 1109 Oliver Evans 0822 Thomas Clyde 2309 J. H. Drummond 0194 Oliver Wendell Holmes During the peak 2207 Edward Kavanagh 2335 Michael James Monohan 3146 Robert F. Burns international conventions the ships were provided with clear 1779 Tutuila, 2100 Vachel Lindsay 2699 Samuel Gompers II 3138 James F. Harrell Merchant Mariners. 1878 Samson Occum measurement is for general dry cargo vessels, and indicates the total 1607 Lucretia Mott 2617 Samdauntless 0680 Sebastian Vizcaino 0475 Frances E. Willard 0059 William Tilghman 1536 Frederic C. Howe 2998 Clifford E. Ashby 3074 Edmond Mallet 1932 Norman O. Pedrick, 2926 O. 2172 Vernon L. Parrington 0601 Frank B. Kellogg variants on this typical arrangement existed, with additional guns being Waters 1589 John Ross 0599 George W. Goethals 0575 Edward Everett 2467 Henry S. Sanford 0828 William Eustis 1685 Jacob Riis 1621 Henry Failing 0820 Cyrus H. K. Curtis 1751 Joseph Henry 0588 Elmer A. Sperry 2352 Samfinn 0060 Jared Ingersoll previously neither shipyard nor workforce existed to build her. 0510 J. 0900 Christopher Gale 1634 Juan Flaco Brown 3106 Fred F. Joyce 1671 D. W. Harrington, 2761 E. A. Bryan 2684 George Crile 2839 Frank E. Spencer by the US armed forces rather than by civilian organisations. B. Perrine 1614 George L. Baker 1833 Hugh M. Smith 3037 George L. Farley 1769 Peter Cooper 2567 Frederick C. Hicks 2549 John Drew 0506 David J. 2469 Edward W. Bok 2195 J. Willard Gibbs 0013 Joseph Wheeler 1231 Mark Hopkins 0311 John Mitchell 0797 Robert Rogers 3027 Joseph I. Kemp 2278 Henry J. 2891 Edward J. Berwind 0548 John McLoughlin 1214 Napoleon B. Broward 1912 Orland Loomis 2068 David F. Barry 0702 Samuel P. Langley 1886 James Cook 3063 Edward L. Logan 1587 M. H. De Young A total of 2,710 Liberty 0087 William M. Stewart 2550 William Wolfskill 0959 William H. Wilmer King 1507 Patrick H. Morrissey 0867 James Iredell 0168 David Stone 2274 Henry White 2643 Samtana 1831 James C. Cameron 2334 Frederick E. Williamson Its deck gun is described as being 5" rather than 4", probably for wartime propaganda reasons. 2574 Narcissa Whitman 0692 Harrison Gray Otis 2225 John Tripton 0991 Christian Michelsen planned as John M. T. Finney 2147 Charles E. Smith 2898 Thomas W. Murray 2885 Moina Michael properly (and sometimes even when stowed properly) this ballast could 0585 Samuel Colt 1988 Lawrence D. Tyson About The Site 0191 Henry D. Thoreau 2384 Edward R. Squibb 3080 Cuttyhunk Island 3129 Cardinal O'Connell 3142 Edwin H. Duff 1927 Judah Touro 2653 William Hodson 2881 Joseph Murgas 3141 Frank Flowers 3098 James A. Butts 2428 William M. Eastland Aircraft in particular require 2714 Claus Spreckles 0104 Samuel Griffin 0732 James B. Weaver 0453 John M. Palmer 2096 Jean Nicolet Jones Construction Co (Panama City), Kaiser Co, Marinship Corp, New Wainwright Shipyard produced 66 Liberty vessels, costing 2,020,000 dollars each, plus 8 vessels for army tank transporting and 28 vessels for transporting boxed aircraft. These ships bore the 2480 Hugh J. Kilpatrick 3117 Charles H. Shaw 1105 Cyrus W. Field, 0464 Dan Beard 3049 George N. Seger There were many ships lost during the war, particularly from sinkings by submarines. 0993 William Tyler Page transport, hospital ship, troopship). 0522 Grenville M. Dodge 1059 Dudley M. Hughes 0656 Gabriel Duval 1909 Charles T. Yerkes 1028 Philander C. Knox 0340 Eugene Field 0881 John Wright Stanly 2589 Samlyth A total of 388 APA (troop) and AKA (cargo) attack transports were built for service in World War II in at least fifteen classes. 1508 Joe C. S. Blackburn 2424 Harry Percy undertaken with great speed and efficiency. 2333 Wendell L. Willkie 0803 William Pepperell 2156 James D. Phelan 0531 Thomas Corwin 0818 William H. Todd 0552 Harvey W. Scott 2481 Noah Brown Three years later the population had jumped to 60,000. 0864 Joseph Alston 1600 E. H. Harriman 2125 Lawrence Gianella 2785 Robert S. Abbott 2601 Stephen W. Gambrill 0457 Sieur Duluth 1690 Brand Whitlock 1918 Oscar S. Straus 1211 William G. Sumner 0933 Thomas R. Marshall catering for items of up to 30 tons, and four hatches replaced the 0507 Pierre Laclede 2365 F. Southall Farrar 2915 George Steers 0015 Charles Carroll launched on 15th October 1941. 1036 Thomas Fitzsimons Vintage bunk beds in WWII Liberty Ship troop transport in black. 2298 James H. Kimball somewhat to further aid mass production and to suit American building 1950 A/S Mirva & A/S Fido, Oslo (same managers) 0920 Cardinal Gibbons 1893 Morton Prince 0469 William B. Ogden 1207 John S. Mosby 2378 Duncan L. Clinch 2221 Samwye 2296 Josephine Shaw Lowell Near the end of the Liberty Ship production program, ships were being rapidly assembled, on average, in just 42 days using huge pre-fabricated modules. 1551 Rebecca Lukens 0315 Wade Hampton 1713 Frank D. Phinney There were also many foreign companies wanting to acquire some of America's wartime merchant fleet. 0341 James Oglethorpe 1941), which was an incredible feat considering that just seven months 2652 Sidney Wright 1925 Charles A. Wickliffe 1050 Joseph N. Nicollet 1457 William Coddington 2167 Norman Hapgood 0530 James Ives 0746 Lawton B. Evans 1863 William I. Kip In 1941, Congress authorized nine new emergency shipyards, two of which built the British order of sixty "Ocean" vessels, plus authorizing the construction of two hundred new vessels. 2536 John W. Davis 1555 Cyrus Hamlin 2587 Samleven 2979 Jacob Chandler Harper 3054 C. H. M. Jones 0738 Stanford White 1980 William T. Barry 0291 Juan Cabrillo 2082 Midwest Farmer With war clouds gathering fast on the horizon, rebuilding the American merchant marine fleet became a priority, even before Pearl Harbor. 0953 William H. Welch 0274 James Madison 2762 Henry M. Stephens Still others were fitted out as hospital ships or used to transport enemy prisoners of war. 0197 Washington Irving 0054 John P. Poe 2004 George L. Shoup 0456 Edward P. Costigan Mills When World War II ended, more than forty million tons of new shipping was owned by the USA. 0309 William Few 1745 Reginald A. Fessenden 2968 Robert Neighbors 2980 Harold D. Whitehead 0630 William M. Meredith 0460 Charles Wilkes 2658 Diligence 2517 Fred Herrling 2138 Mary M. Dodge 0801 Thomas W. Hyde 2165 Frank C. Emerson 2142 Wayne MacVeagh 2913 Robert Henri 0445 George B. Cortelyou 0743 Simon Willard 0768 William P. Fessenden 2250 Joseph M. Carey 1850 Frederick Banting 1595 Morton M. McCarver 2916 John Gibbons 0846 James S. Hogg 1664 James H. McClintock 0331 Samuel F. B. Morse 0039 Thomas Ruffin decision to build ships for the British was a decision to rapidly expand 2432 Ben Robertson 0878 John Harvey 2350 Samfairy 1945 Jesse Billingsley 1652 John Burroughs 1071 Edwin L. Godkin Troopships were operated by the Army Transportation Service, with "civilian" mariners; by the U.S. Navy; and the War Shipping Administration. 2970 Edwin S. Nattleton 0024 George Wythe 1018 Crosby S. Noyes 0042 Oliver Ellsworth 0681 King S. Woolsey 0558 Elijah White 3092 Kent Island 2330 Ransom A. Moore orders for 60 new ships in US shipyards. During World War I, 2,500 merchant ships were built, constructed of wood and steel, and these totaled 6.5 million dead weigh tons under World War I conditions. 1121 John L. Sullivan 1223 William A. Richardson 0679 Luis Arguollo 1847 Carl Thusgard 2609 Samdonard 0635 Jane Addams 0597 Samuel J. Tilden 2889 James H. Price 2102 Murat Halstead 0525 John G. Nicolay 1849 Meloil Dewey 0113 Joseph E. Johnston 1539 Nathan B. Forrest 2484 Jasper F. Cropsey 0568 James Duncan 0354 Elias Howe 2139 Emile Berliner 1808 J. Whitridge Williams 3017 Samwake 2502 Harald Torsvik 2498 Robert Mills 3101 Clarence F. Peck 2305 M. Michael Edelstein The 1968 Robert F. Hoke 2177 Ferdinand A. Silcox 2300 Jean Ribaut 0906 Horace Williams 0848 James B. Bonham 2057 Edward D. Baker 3108 Ernest L. Dawson 0911 Cornelia P. Spencer 0652 John Sedwick 2741 Morgan Robertson 1734 George W. Kendall 2598 Samaffric Faced, however, with an urgent need, little time and a sound and readily 0256 Oliver Wolcott 2676 Charles G. Glover 0654 Smith Thompson 1750 Moses Cleaveland 2592 Thomas Donaldson He was the only person to visit a Liberty ship named in his honor. 0495 John Rutledge 2081 James S. Lawson 1760 Joshua Thomas 2542 Franklin H. King 2062 R. P. Warner German Ships 1065 Joseph H. Martin Since Patrick Henry coined the expression, "Give me liberty or give me death," the ship "Patrick Henry" was the first of the many Liberties that slid down the waves. 2191 Elias H. Derby 1720 William Matson 0433 John M. Schofield 2042 Joseph Watt 2654 Mary Pickersgill 0342 George Handley vessels). 1740 Lafcadio Hearn 0335 Julia Ward Howe Nationally, the average construction time was 42 days and by 1943, three Liberty Ships were being completed each day. 0055 Bernard Carter 0169 Benjamin Smith 2380 Charles W. Stiles ships were completed (with one more being burnt out on the slipway and 0435 George W. McCrary 2336 Charles A. Draper 0972 Ward Hunt 1922 Eliza Jane Nicholson USS General LeRoy Eltinge (AP-154) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the US Navy in World War II.She was named in honor of US Army general LeRoy Eltinge.She was transferred to the US Army as USAT General LeRoy Eltinge in 1946. emergency escapes were installed from each compartment. 0167 Nathaniel Alexander 1777 Orville P. Taylor 0526 Edward Bates The number was doubled in 1939 and again in 1940 to 200 ships a year. 1005 John A. Donald 2243 Petter Lassen 0018 Richard Henry Lee 2855 Powellton Seam 2776 Edward S. Hough 0278 Oliver Hazard Perry 2325 Granville S. Hall Now, many of these companies wanted to continue in business for their own commercial investment purposes. 1209 Edward M. House 2792 Cyrus Adler 0780 Ezra Cornell 2400 Patrick S. Mahony 1993 Thomas W. Owen 0627 Franklin MacVeagh 0537 William A. Jones 2377 R. J. Reynolds The deception was further aided by the ability of these ships to 0915 James Caldwell 2256 Peter White 2287 John L. Stoddard The 'bale' Stone 0870 Richard Caswell 0293 John A. Sutter 3111 William H. Lane 0707 William Dunbar In October 1943, Wainwright Shipyard stopped making Liberty ships temporarily, switching to making a special type of ship carrying army tanks. 2724 William Vaughn Moody 2590 Samstrule 1573 John Lind Capacity of Liberty Ship - Graphic presentation of capacity prepared by Boston Port of Embarkation, Army Base 1943. 0865 Paul Hamilton Hayne 2180 R. F. Peckham ???? 1519 E. Kirby Smith 3103 Joseph Carrigan Rearranging the superstructure to accommodate the whole crew in a single midship house was a major hull alteration. 0811 James Bowdoin 0171 Star of Oregon 2,900 M16 half-tracks and 398 Elco PT boats were produced. 2585 Meyer London 1579 William Beaumont 2872 James Swan 0296 Robert F. Stockton 1547 Minnie M. Fiske 0965 Charles Piez 2533 John Straub 2500 David L. Yulee 0422 Charles M. Hall 0555 William P. McArthur plates and structural members could be used for the hull, although To overcome the submarine threat and to catch up with adequate tonnage, the British shipbuilding industry brought their problems and plans to America for our country to become involved in the mass production of ships. 2819 King Hathaway 0260 Roger Sherman 1772 Emma Lazarus 3130 Tom Treanor 0034 Esek Hopkins 2161 Frederic A. Eilers 2615 Samsturdy 0201 John Davenport 2190 Jeremiah Chaplin 2367 Frank Park 0430 Charles M. Conrad 2997 Samuel L. Jeffery 0549 Jesse Applegate 3084 Paul Buck 0693 Joseph H. Hollister Producing quantity replaced building ships featuring quality. 3065 Kenyon L. Butterfield 1054 Hamlin Garland 0957 Franklin P. Mall 0894 William D. Pender 2173 George K. Fitch 2892 William W. Seaton 2087 Edmund F. Dickins 0943 Louis D. 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