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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.
SS John W. Brown is a Liberty ship, one of two still operational and one of three preserved as museum ships. [6] As a Liberty ship, she operated as a merchant ship of the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and later was a vocational high school training ship in New York City for many years.
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 ...
Albert M. Boe was a boxed aircraft transport ship built by New England Shipbuilding Corporation. Laid down on 11 July 1945, launched on 26 September and delivered on 30 October, she was the last Liberty ship built. She served with the United States Army Transportation Corps.
The Puzzle Palace, by James Bamford, Penguin Books, 1982, has a detailed description of the Israeli attack on the SIGINT ship USS Liberty, and the events leading up to it, on pages 279–293. Body of Secrets, by James Bamford, devotes a detailed chapter to the incident, and concludes it was deliberate. Doubleday, 2001 (ISBN 0-09-942774-5)
SS Lawton B. Evans was a Liberty ship, with hull number 'MCE 746'. She launched at Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company on 1 January 1943, sponsored by Betty Jane Hard, Winner of Scrap Metal Drive, Milledgeville, Georgia. The cosponsor was Mrs. E. D. Veal, Principal of Midway School, Milledgeville, Georgia. [3] [4]
SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a Liberty ship built during World War II and named after the American Revolutionary War ship captain Jeremiah O'Brien (1744–1818).. Now based in San Francisco, she is a rare survivor [a] of the 6,939-ship 6 June 1944 D-Day armada off the coast of Normandy, France.
A. SS A. B. Hammond; SS A. Frank Lever; SS A. J. Cermak; SS A. Mitchell Palmer; SS Abigail Adams; SS Abigail Gibbons; SS Abner Doubleday; SS Abraham Clark; USS Acubens