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Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Liberty. English ship Liberty (1649), a great ship launched in 1632 as Charles and renamed in 1649 she was wrecked in 1650; HMS Liberty (1768) was a sloop belonging to John Hancock confiscated by the Royal Navy in 1768 for failure to pay customs duties. She was commissioned under Captain ...
Liberty was a sloop owned by John Hancock, an American merchant, whose seizure was the subject of the Liberty Affair.Seized by customs officials in Boston in 1768, it was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Liberty, and she was burned the next year by American colonists in Newport, Rhode Island, in one of the first acts of open defiance against the British crown by American colonists.
Another Liberty ship that exploded was the rechristened SS Grandcamp, which caused the Texas City Disaster on 16 April 1947, killing at least 581 people. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, by the United States Army Air Force, into floating aircraft repair depots, operated by the Army Transport Service, starting in April 1944.
HMS Liberty was a Laforey-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during the First World War. Launched on 15 September 1913 as HMS Rosalind , the ship was renamed on 30 September under an Admiralty order to become one of the first alphabetical class destroyers.
The general dry cargo liberty ship had an average draft of 28 ft (8.5 m), but Richard Montgomery was trimmed to a draft of 31 ft (9.4 m). As the tide went down, the ship broke her back on sand banks near the Isle of Sheppey about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Sheerness and 5 mi (8.0 km) from Southend. [7]
Charles was a 44-gun second rank ship of the line of the English navy, built by Peter Pett at Woolwich and launched in 1632. [1] Charles was renamed Liberty in 1649. She ran aground and was wrecked off Harwich, Essex in October 1650. [2]
Empire Liberty was the prototype Liberty ship. [37] She was a 7,157 GRT cargo ship which was built by J L Thompson & Sons Ltd, Sunderland. Launched on 23 August 1941 and completed in November 1941. Allocated in 1943 to the Greek Government and renamed Kyklades. Sold in 1947 to H C Dracoulis, Greece and renamed Mentor.
List of Liberty ships, particular ships of that type; HMS Liberty, various ships of the British Royal Navy; USS Liberty (1775), an American Revolutionary War ship; Liberty (1784 ship), a merchant vessel launched at Broadstairs and burnt by the French navy at Montserrat in 1805. Liberty (1787 ship) was of British origin, built in 1775, that ...