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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1400069644. Sawyer, L. A.; Mitchell, W. H. (1985). The Liberty Ships: The history of the "emergency" type cargo ships constructed in the United States during the Second World War. London: Lloyd's of London Press. ISBN 978-1850440499.
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.
USS Savannah (CL-42) was a light cruiser of the Brooklyn-class that served in World War II in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theatres of operation. Savannah conducted Neutrality Patrols (1941) and wartime patrols in the Atlantic and Caribbean (1942), and supported the invasion of French North Africa in Operation Torch (November 1942).
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.
Keystone Tankships company ordered five tankers in 1940 from Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock of Chester, Pennsylvania, based on the T2 but longer and with increased capacity; Marcom would designate this design T2-A. Bigger but faster, they were 526 ft (160.3 m) in total length, displaced about 22,445 tons, and were rated at 10,600 tons gross with 16,300 DWT — yet they attained a top speed ...
The SS Paul Hamilton (Hull Number 227) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Paul Hamilton , the third United States Secretary of the Navy . She was operated by the Black Diamond Steamship Company under charter with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration .
SS John Morgan was a World War II Liberty ship built by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at their Bethlehem-Fairfield yard at Baltimore, Maryland, and launched on 4 May 1943. She was operated by the Wessel Duval & Company for the war.
LST-420 was a Royal Navy tank landing ship of World War II, built as a LST-1-class tank landing ship (LST Mk 2) in the US that was transferred to UK. She was lost on 7 November 1944, after hitting a mine in heavy seas off Ostend, Belgium, sinking with great loss of life, particularly amongst her Royal Air Force passengers.