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A Victory ship of World War II Liberty ship of World War II. The Emergency Shipbuilding Program built many types of ships to support the war. The most numerous ships were the 2,710 cargo Liberty ships. [25] Liberty ships were built between 1941 and 1945, with a new module assembly process so that about three ships were built every two days. [26]
World War II merchant ships of the United States (1 C, 295 P) W. World War II merchant ships of Yugoslavia (2 P) This page was last edited on 14 February 2024, at 12: ...
Liberty ships (14 C, 583 P) Pages in category "World War II merchant ships of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 295 total.
Ship name Namesake MC hull no. Ship type Laid down Launched Fate SS George M. Verity: George M. Verity: 2675 standard 10 August 1944: 12 September 1944: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1969 SS George Matthews: George Matthews: 285 standard 28 February 1942: 9 May 1942: Scrapped 1967 SS George Middlemas: George Middlemas: 2768 standard 22 February ...
Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia Eighty-four black-and-white photographs from the J.A. Jones Construction Company collection at the Brunswick-Glynn County Library that depict the company's World War II cargo ship building activities in its Brunswick, Georgia shipyard from 1943 to 1945.
The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...
14 built by Sun Ship for World War II were used as troop ships in 1944 and 1945. The United States Navy took over 6 to become Haven-class hospital ships in May 1945 and painted them white. Along with military troop movement, the C4-S-B2 participated in Operation Magic Carpet to bring home troops and their families. After the war others were ...
U.S. Navy Abbreviations of World War II; Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945; HISTORIC SHIPS TO VISIT - LISTED BY TYPE OF GOVERNMENT SERVICE; NavSource Naval History; Summary of Vessels Built in WWII, by Type; Comparison of U.S. Army and U.S. Navy Vessels in World War II; Army Ships—The Ghost Fleet; History of US Army T Boats; Hero Ships: LST