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These lists of Liberty ships are sortable lists, allowing ships to be looked up by hull number. Liberty ships were a type of mass-produced cargo ship built to meet inexpensively the United States's World War II maritime transport needs. List of Liberty ships (A-F) List of Liberty ships (G–Je) List of Liberty ships (Je–L) List of Liberty ...
Ship name Namesake MC hull no. Ship type Laid down Launched Fate SS S. Hall Young: S. Hall Young: 479 standard 2 March 1943: 31 March 1943: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1967 SS S. M. Babcock: Stephen Moulton Babcock: 590 standard 5 October 1942: 1 November 1942: Scrapped 1967 SS S. M. Shoemaker: S. M. Shoemaker: 2667 standard 8 July 1944: 10 ...
Hellas Liberty. Arthur M. Huddell was built by St Johns River Shipbuilding Company. Her keel was laid on 25 October 1943. She was launched on 7 December and delivered on 18 December. [69] Converted to a pipe carrying ship in 1944 for use in Operation Pluto. [101] Laid up in Suisun Bay in 1946. Sold in 1956 to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. [2]
Ship name Namesake MC hull no. Ship type Laid down Launched Fate SS M. E. Comerford: Michael E. Comerford: 2390 standard 10 November 1944: 12 December 1944: Scrapped 1970 SS M. H. De Young: M. H. de Young: 1587 standard 15 June 1943: 6 July 1943: Torpedoed in the Pacific 1943, to U.S. Navy as Antelope (IX-109), scrapped 1950 SS M. M. Guhin ...
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Although British in concept, [3] the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Mass-produced on an unprecedented scale, the Liberty ship came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial ...
This a category for Liberty ships, the standard-design merchant cargo ships built by American shipyards during World War II Subcategories. This category has the ...
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SS Robert E. Peary was a Liberty ship which gained fame during World War II for being built in a shorter time than any other such vessel. Named after Robert Peary, an American explorer who was among the first people to reach the geographic North Pole, she was launched on November 12, 1942, just 4 days, 15 hours and 26 minutes after the keel was laid down.