Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the
The class was developed … See more

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 … See more

In September 1943 strategic plans and shortage of more suitable hulls required that Liberty ships be pressed into emergency use as troop transports with about 225 eventually converted for this purpose. T… See more

Liberty ships were built at eighteen shipyards located along the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts:
• Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding, Mobile, Alabama
• Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard… See more

There are four surviving Liberty Ships.
• SS John W. Brown – operational and in use as a museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, Maryland
• SS Jeremiah O'Brien – operational and in use as a museum ship, docked at … See more

• EC2-S-AW1 Collier, for coal transport, 24 built by Delta SB.
• EC2-S-C1 dry cargo ships for Merchant Navy
• EC2-S-C1 converted for US Navy use … See more

• Allied technological cooperation during World War II
• Empire ships
• Hog Islander, WW I-designed American cargo ship design that served in WW II… See more