1652 - John Burroughs 2101 - Michael Casey 2778 - Wallace R. Farrington ... types of engine, different design of ships and, of course, who built which ship. 2389 - Arthur M. Hulbert 1028 - Philander C. Knox 2005 - Ignatius Donnelly - USAT 2102 - Murat Halstead - Completed as Chung Cheng [Generalissimo Chiang 0800 - William Sturgis In 1936, the American Merchant Marine Act was passed to subsidize the annual construction of 50 commercial merchant vessels which could be used in wartime by the United States Navy as naval auxiliaries, crewed by U.S. 2109 - Cyrus T. Brady Gen. Clinton W. Russell 3048 - William Tyler 2663 - S. Wiley Wakeman 2371 - Niels Poulson - USAT 2786 - Benjamin Carpenter - USAT 1200 - John Philip Sousa 2938 - Nathaniel Scudder - Army Aircraft Repair Ship Brig. 1233 - Sebastian Cermeno 1688 - Granville Stuart - Completed as Samaritan 0264 - Eli Whitney - YAG this page on the Internet or in published material please notify usmm.org @ comcast.net. 1888 - Orson D. Munn 0935 - Molly Pitcher - USAT 1666 - David E. Hughes 2994 - Bernard L. Rodman 0206 - William King 2494 - John Ringling 0630 - William M. Meredith Sterling Morton - USAT 0660 - Philip P. Barbour - USAT In the year 1318 sheep and cattle began to die of a contagious disease. 2270 - John Isaacson 2454 - George A. Marr 2293 - Alanson B. Houghton 0443 - William G. McAdoo - AK 112- IX 112 Grumium 0077 - John Langdon 0106 - Daniel Hiester - USAT 2937 - Andrew W. Preston 2459 - Kochab - Completed as AKS 6 2473 - Richard K. Call 0707 - William Dunbar 1054 - Hamlin Garland - USAT 1707 - John S. Bassett in parentheses shows the number of troops the ship could hold. 0099 - Michael J. 1046 - John A. Quitman - USAT 1116 - George Gipp 2641 - Samindoro - Loan Great Britain 2626 - Samfleet - Loan Great Britain 1045 - George Poindexter 0844 - Benito Juarez 0155 - Jeremiah Van Rensselaer - USAT 2444 - Samcebu - Loan Great Britain 3034 - Thomas H. Sumner 0673 - Helen Hunt Jackson - WSAT (550) USAT 1219 - Royal S. Copeland 2925 - Richard O'Brien - Army Aircraft Repair Ship Brig. 0444 - Leslie M. Shaw 0554 - John C. Ainsworth - WSAT AP USAT 0742 - Benjamin H. Latrobe 1889 - Alan Seeger The last Liberty ship was the Benjamin Warner, named after the father of Hollywood’s Warner brothers, launched on July 1, 1944 in Kaiser’s Richmond, Calif., shipyard. 0714 - Josiah Royce 1023 - Black Hawk - USAT 0394 - Francisco Coronado [1748] 0769 - Winslow Homer 2116 - Mary Bickerdyke 0321 - Irvin MacDowell - WSAT (550) USAT 0745 - William C. Gorgas 2760 - Sidney H. Short - USAT 2277 - E. A. Christenson 2121 - Clyde L. Seavey 2941 - Robert Watchorn 2145 - Jeremiah M. Rusk 0827 - John Fairfield - USAT 2889 - James H. Price 3015 - Sambanka - Loan Great Britain 2096 - Jean Nicolet - USAT 0829 - John Armstrong - USAT 1612 - Albert B. Cummins - USAT 0791 - Eugene Hale - WSAT (550) USAT Newspapers and magazines called them “Ugly Ducklings” and Roosevelt, a yachtsman and former undersecretary of the Navy, referred to one that he saw as “a dreadful looking object.”, Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (right) and his wife Bess. Norton’s design was one of many that advertised liberty bonds during World War I. 2319 - William P. Duval 0084 - Isaac Coles - WSAT (504) USAT 0281 - Abiel Foster - USAT 0291 - Juan Cabrillo - USAT 2835 - William W. McKee 2554 - Augustin Stahl 2174 - Francis A. Wardwell 2836 - La Salle Seam 3041 - James Sullivan 0277 - Albert Gallatin - USAT 0535 - Matthew Lyon - AKN 5 Zebra 2999 - Alfred L. Baxley - Completed as Lektor Garbo 1645 - Edward W. Scripps - USAT 2648 - Dexter W. Fellows 2507 - Telfair Stockton 0174 - John Barry - USAT 0159 - William Gaston - USAT Kaiser Permanente photo. 0152 - John Cropper - WSAT (550) USAT 0501 - Samuel F. Miller - USAT 0233 - Fisher Ames 1968 - Robert F. Hoke 0310 - William Grayson - USAT 1808 - J. Whitridge Williams - Loan Great Britain Samsylvan 1231 - Mark Hopkins - WSAT (550) USAT Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser couldn’t turn back the clock. 3147 - Edward W. Burton - USAT; YAGR 8- AGR 8 Interceptor 2888 - Rudolph Kauffmann - USAT 1120 - Tecumseh 0684 - Louis McLane - WSAT (550) USAT 0532 - James Guthrie - USAT 0020 - George Calvert (I) - completed as American Mariner USMS training 2909 - Charles J. Finger 2006 - Robert Newell - USAT 2712 - Edward G. Acheson 1105 - Cyrus W. Field - USAT, 1671 2416 - Van Lear Black - AK 225 Allegan 2727 - William Peffer 1038 - William M. Evarts - WSAT AP USAT 0746 - Lawton B. Evans - USAT 0148 - William Hooper 1844 - Ben H. Miller 2609 - Samdonard - Loan Great Britain 1846 - Louis C. Tiffany - Destroyed by fire on way never completed 2194 - George Popham - USAT 0130 - George Leonard - WSAT (550) USAT 0248 - Samuel Huntington - WSAT (504) USAT 1991 - Charles A. Dana 2772 - Jose M. Morelos 1617 - George Flavel - WSAT AP USAT 2178 - Sara Teasdale 2581 - John W. Troy 0103 - Nicholas Gilman - WSAT (550) USAT 0270 - Jeremiah Wadsworth 2169 - Norman E. Mack 2682 - Bert McDowell - Completed as ARG 17 Hooper Island 2438 - John E. Sweet 2796 - Walker D. Hines 0398 - Laura Keene [1752] - USAT 1913 - Edward Paine 2094 - Manasseh Culter - Completed as Samouri Loan Great Britain 0015 - Charles Carroll 2262 - Alexander Majors - USAT 0483 - Edward Rowland Sill 2031 - John F. Steffen 0487 - F. Marion Crawford - WSAT (550) USAT 1829 - Leo J. Duster The kudos for inventing the basics, for designing the hull and propulsion combination, belongs to Britain. 1653 - Charles Crocker - USAT "Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper" Oscar Wilde. 2484 - Jasper F. Cropsey 2063 - Henry L. Abott 0953 - William H. Welch 2490 - Alfred I. Dupont prominent (deceased) Americans, starting with Patrick Henry and the signers 2254 - Albert A. Michelson 2980 - Harold D. Whitehead 2043 - Delazon Smith 3091 - Francis A. Retka 2752 - Franz Sigel ship 3019 - George Eldridge 2173 - George K. Fitch - B. Charney Vladeck 1699 - William F. Vilas - Completed as Samana Loan Great Britain 3075 - Matthew Sheehan 2808 - Am-Mer-Mar - USAT 1662 - Josiah Earl 0923 - Will Rogers 2931 - Rufus Choate 0433 - John M. Schofield They were improved Liberty Ships designed to be faster and safer with a much longer lifetime, so that they would be suitable for regular commercial use after the war. 0482 - Sheldon Jackson - USAT 2441 - John A. Treutlen - USAT 2749 - Edwin C. Musick 2281 - Mello Franco 0541 - Josiah Snelling 0659 - Thomas Johnson - WSAT (550) USAT 0160 - William A. Graham - WSAT (550) USAT 0185 - Henry W. Longfellow - WSAT AP USAT 2883 - Joseph S. McDonagh Cross-compound steam turbine engines with double reduction gears were designed to deliver 6,000 or 8,500 horsepower, and could make up to 17 knots, significantly faster than a Liberty. 2426 - Charles Goodnight 2409 - Samfeugh - Loan Great Britain 0168 - David Stone - USAT 3088 - Indian Island - AG 77 Md.,1970. 0815 - John Mason - D. W. Harrington - AK 103 Sculptor 2879 - Addie Bagley Daniels 2020 - Joseph C. Avery - Loan USSR Kherson 0117 - Amelia Earhart - USAT Kai-Shek] Loan China 3035 - Joseph C. Lincoln 0793 - George Cleeve - USAT 0235 - Samuel Moody 0807 - John A. Banks - Completed as Vadso 0041 - Richard Bassett - WSAT (550) USAT 0987 - Haym Salomon - WSAT (550) USAT 0970 - William Strong - Roald Amundsen 0242 - John Adams - USAT 0926 - Thaddeus Kosciuszko - WSAT (550) USAT 1639 - Mark Keppel 1895 - John H. Marion 0897 - Jonathan Worth - WSAT (550) USAT 0190 - James Russell Lowell - WSAT (550) USAT 2919 - Christopher S. Flanagan 1489 - James M. Wayne 0979 - James R. Randall - USAT 0246 - Timothy Pickering 2721 - William Ford Nichols 1767 - Holland Thompson - Completed as Samite Loan Great Britain 2645 - Samsylarna - Loan Great Britain 2106 - William Sharon 0477 - Abigail Adams 1638 - William M. Gwin - AK 125 Lesuth 0101 - Benjamin Bourn 2307 - Nick Stoner Liberty ships built. 1019 - Louis Marshall - USAT 3009 - Samderry - Loan Great Britain This model represents one of the 2,710 Liberty ships built during World War II. 0575 - Edward Everett 0107 - Benjamin Huntington - WSAT (550) USAT 0581 - Joseph N. Teal - WSAT (550) USAT 1665 - Jacob S. Mansfield 1555 - Cyrus Hamlin - Completed as AK 101 Lyra 1709 - Luther S. Kelly 0954 - William Osler - USAT hospital ship Wisteria 2207 - Edward Kavanagh - YAG 38 2090 - John M. Bozeman 0850 - Anson Jones 1981 - Lee S. Overman - USAT Upon receiving an answer in the affirmative, Kaiser went to a locker, took out a bottle of champagne, and motioned for her to follow him. 1010 - John Wanamaker - USAT 1221 - Edwin G. Weed He built Liberty ships – fast. 1894 - Harvey W. Wiley 2679 - Milan R. Stefanik - USAT 1720 - William Matson - USAT ships by yard 0088 - Willis Van Devanter - USAT 3121 - Cornelius Ford 0808 - Harry A. Garfield - Belgian Dynasty Loan Belgium 1724 - Jeremiah M. Daily 0705 - Howard Stansbury 2871 - Alexander R. Shepherd The artist who designed the poster, John Warner Norton, had some experience with war; a couple of decades earlier he trained as a soldier with Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. 2445 - Harry L. Glucksman - FY 66 MSS 1 0671 - George Chaffey - YAG 0941 - William R. Day Kaiser Permanente photo. 0022 - Carter Braxton 2674 - Dutiful - Completed as Reliance; HMS Dutiful; AR 20 Laertes 0345 - Lyman Hall - USAT 0675 - Benjamin Ide Wheeler 0574 - Henry George In addition to being faster, welding required less skill than riveting, an important factor because Kaiser’s yard crews contained workers new to shipyard work, including women, because able-bodied men were being drafted to serve in uniform. 0322 - George B. McClellan - WSAT (550) USAT 2345 - Wesley W. Barrett - USAT - Kate Douglas Wiggin - USAT 0901 - William L. Davidson Plant (II) - USAT 0473 - Jacques Laramie 0328 - John Fitch - USAT 3051 - Archibald R. Mansfield 0204 - Ethan Allen - WSAT (550) USAT 2793 - George W. Alther 2708 - Alexander Mitchell 0552 - Harvey W. Scott LIBERTY SHIP CAPACOÛY COMMISSION ENGINEERING CO. 55 sr. NEW YORK N.Y. 1 Of 6 www.ssrichardmontgomery.com . Mills 0255 - William Whipple 1866 - George Kenny 2061 - Joseph Simon 2582 - Abigail S. Duniway 0215 - John Chandler 0068 - Paul Revere 0610 - Jim Bridger 0421 - John F. Appleby 1571 - James W. Nye - AK 104 Ganymede 2273 - Gilbert M. Hitchcock - USAT Thompson and Sons of Sunderland, UK, dated back to 1879. 1003 - Robert J. Collier 0870 - Richard Caswell - USAT 3036 - Aram J. Pothier - USAT 0342 - George Handley - WSAT (550) USAT 1851 - Martin Van Buren - USAT 1236 - Henry Durant 2015 - James Oliver 1218 - John White - AK 123 Menkar 2044 - Samuel K. Barlow 2979 - Jacob Chandler Harper 1460 - James De Wolf 0078 - Caleb Strong - WSAT (550) USAT In the nineteenth century 1,871 slave ships were impounded by anti-slave-trade patrols. 0136 - Jonathan Sturges 1008 - Nathan Towson 0519 - John G. Carlisle 2695 - Terry E. Stephenson 3076 - Frederick Bouchard 2635 - Samtorch - Loan Great Britain 2532 - Lewis L. Dyche - USAT - S. Hall Young - USAT 1211 - William G. Sumner - AK 114 Alkaid 2996 - Willard R. Johnson - USAT 2224 - Samderwent - Loan Great Britain 0115 - John B. 1705 - Floyd Bennett 1203 - William Byrd 2921 - Henry M. Robert Between 1941 and 1945, 18 American shipyards, either Kaiser’s or using Kaiser’s shipbuilding techniques, turned out 2,751 Liberty ships, easily the largest class of ships ever built. Designed to carry supplies to European allies, the Steam Ship (SS) John W. Brown was built to aid the American war effort. 3018 - Samoresby - Loan Great Britain 1641 - George Gershwin Waters - Loan USSR Rodina 2034 - Irving W. Pratt - Completed as Nakhodka Loan USSR 0560 - George Chamberlain - YAG 0884 - George E. Badger Most numerous were the Liberty ship, officially the EC2 design. 0664 - Benjamin R. Curtis - USAT 0929 - James Woodrow - USAT 0917 - Nicholas Biddle 1954 - George W. Lively - USAT 1199 - Richard Montgomery - USAT 0050 - William Wirt S. Ochs 0550 - George Abernethy - USAT 2876 - Jonas Lie 1912 - Orland Loomis - USAT 1854 - Howard T. Ricketts 3142 - Edwin H. Duff - USAT; YAGR 13- AGR 13 Interdictor 0980 - William H. Webb 1690 - Brand Whitlock 2848 - Jellico Seam 2923 - Julius Olsen A new generation of ships was conceived, designed, and built in American shipyards. 2794 - Robert W. Bingham - Completed as Army Aircraft Repair Ship Brig. 0007 - Judah P. Benjamin - USAT But the hundreds of thousands of men in uniform and mountains of materiel were useless for the Allied war effort if they remained within America’s borders. 1817 - Augustine Herman - Completed as Samsette Loan Great Britain 2977 - Paul David Jones 2397 - James Bennett Moore - USAT There were some 443 shipwrecks of slave ships, while more than 800 vessels were seized by privateers. 2747 - Percy E. Foxworth 1907 - Sanford B. Dole - IX 118 Giraffe 1013 - George H. Pendleton 0825 - Enoch Train - USAT 2003 - Cushman K. Davis - WSAT AP USAT t 4 Il 14 It 31 40 VL LEGEND 10 It 14 15 18 86 t 05 NINE BOOMS OF FOREMAST ... Design EC2-S-C1 Liberty ship Stowage and Capacity Booklet Keywords: liberty ship … 0326 - Philip H. Sheridan - USAT 2562 - Sherman O. Houghton 0287 - James Schureman 1684 - William R. Nelson - AK 105 Naos 2083 - Victor C. Vaughan - Completed as Samzona Loan Great Britain 1883 - Richard J. Cleveland 1906 - Carl R. Gray - IX 117 Gemsbok 1457 - William Coddington - USAT A Liberty ship was designed to carry about 10,000 tons of cargo, but in wartime conditions often carried much more. 2352 - Samfinn - Loan Great Britain 0397 - Joseph Henry [1751] 1217 - Elizabeth C. Bellamy - AK 122 Baham; AG 71 0181 - Philip Schuyler - USAT 0180 - William Dawes - USAT 2231 - Jack Singer 0811 - James Bowdoin - USAT 0518 - Charles S. Fairchild - Krasnogvardeyets Loan USSR 2503 - Frederic W. Galbraith - USAT 1710 - Charles N. McGroarty - USAT 0679 - Luis Arguello 2076 - Sidney Edgerton 0512 - Key Pittman - AK 128 Leonis 0536 - George D. Prentice 1531 - Robert Lansing 0604 - John S. Copley - USAT 1462 - Moses Brown 2579 - Elwood Mead 0257 - Francis Lewis - USAT 1722 - William Keith 0230 - Robert Fulton 0120 - William C. C. Claiborne - USAT 1698 - John Constantine 0133 - Thomas Scott 2513 - Fred C. Stebbins 1875 - Joseph Francis - USAT Between December 1946 and April 1947, the 98 Liberty ships, along with two smaller cargo liners built as the CI-M-AVI type, were acquired and delivered to Greek interests, marking the start of one of the most important and interesting chapters in modern Greek maritime history, the legend of the 100 Liberty ships. 2946 - T. E. Mitchell 0814 - Ferdinando Gorges The Francis J. O'Gara was named after a mariner who was presumed Role of the Liberty ships. 0074 - Henry Knox 0203 - Thomas Hooker 1879 - Albino Perez 0062 - Horace Binney - WSAT (550) USAT Was an enhancement of the 2,710 Liberty ships were completed, as one burned at the Bay. Two oil-burning boilers produced 2,500 hp and a half days four and a half days named in his honor and. 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