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Author : Leonard Arthur Sawyer
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Liberty Ships written by Leonard Arthur Sawyer and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sherod Cooper
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Liberty Ship written by Sherod Cooper and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book devoted exclusively to a single merchantman's seagoing career during World War II, this work describes the activities of the Liberty ship John W. Brown and of the Merchant Marine and Navy Armed Guard crews who manned the ship. As the author demonstrates in this thoroughly researched account, Liberty ships carried about two-thirds of the vital cargoes transported overseas during the war and played an indispensable role in landing and supplying the troops that defeated the Axis powers in Europe and Asia. This book is based on logs, official documents, and reports in the National Archives, on the collection of unpublished Navy administrative histories in the Navy Department library, and on diaries, letters, and recollections of men who sailed on the Brown. The insights derived from the author's interviews and correspondence with a number of the Brown's wartime Merchant and Navy Armed Guard crewmen add a personal dimension to the narrative. A fine collection of photographs supplements the text.
Author : Greg H. Williams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617546
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Liberty Ships of World War II written by Greg H. Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. For the first time, comprehensive information is provided about the builders, the namesakes, and the operators under one cover. Included is a list of all 2,710 Liberty ships delivered by U.S. shipyards, giving each ship’s namesake and detailed descriptions of the companies that built the ships and the steamship companies that operated them during the war. This book also details the formation of two shipyards in South Portland, Maine, the Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Co. and the South Portland Shipbuilding Corp. South Portland’s shady operations were investigated by the U.S. Congress and resulted in the merger of both companies into the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in April 1943. Also featured is the Jeremiah O’Brien. Built by New England Ship in 1943 and one of only two operational Liberty ships left in the world, its service history and crew information are given along with its postwar restoration and return to Normandy in 1994.
Author : Greg H. Williams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786479450
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Liberty Ships of World War II written by Greg H. Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. For the first time, comprehensive information is provided about the builders, the namesakes, and the operators under one cover. Included is a list of all 2,710 Liberty ships delivered by U.S. shipyards, giving each ship's namesake and detailed descriptions of the companies that built the ships and the steamship companies that operated them during the war. This book also details the formation of two shipyards in South Portland, Maine, the Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Co. and the South Portland Shipbuilding Corp. South Portland's shady operations were investigated by the U.S. Congress and resulted in the merger of both companies into the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in April 1943. Also featured is the Jeremiah O'Brien. Built by New England Ship in 1943 and one of only two operational Liberty ships left in the world, its service history and crew information are given along with its postwar restoration and return to Normandy in 1994.
Author : John Henshaw
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526750643
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Liberty's Provenance written by John Henshaw and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deserves consideration from anyone interested in how the ship design process is translated into actual product which in turn can win a war.” —Warship International The Battle of the Atlantic, fought by the Allies to maintain lines of communication and vital trade routes for armaments, men, and basic sustenance, could not have been won without the 2,710 Liberty ships that were designed and built for those critical one-way voyages to Europe—more than one voyage was considered a bonus. The kudos for the Liberty’s construction rightfully belongs to America, but few people know that the groundwork for the shape of the hull and its basic hydrodynamics took place in the North Sands shipyard of Joseph Thompson & Sons Ltd on the banks on the River Wear in Sunderland, England. This new book follows the path of the critical designs that flowed from Thompson’s shipyard, commencing with SS Embassage in 1935, to SS Dorington Court in 1939, through the SS Empire Wind/Wave series for the Ministry of War Transport in 1940 to SS Empire Liberty in 1941. These led to the sixty Ocean Class vessels built by Henry J. Kaiser and, from these, the Liberty ship was adapted by American naval architects Gibbs & Cox who, to this very day, still claim they designed the Liberty ship. With the use of beautifully drawn ship profiles, starting with World War I designs, then the critical designs from Thompson’s shipyard, and particularly a drawing comparing the Liberty ship with its British progenitor, the author demonstrates just how much of the former was borrowed from the latter. While some credit has been given to Thompson’s designs, this new book offers the first real proof as to the direct link between his work, the Empire Liberty/Ocean Class, and the Liberty ship that followed. In addition, the book demonstrates the versatility of the Liberty ship and explores those that were developed for specialist use, from hospital ships and mule transports to nuclear-age missile range ships.
Author : James M. Ennes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Assault on the Liberty written by James M. Ennes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adolph A. Hoehling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Fighting Liberty Ships written by Adolph A. Hoehling and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 2,700 Liberty ships were built during World War 11, merchant vessels that carried supplies to America forces in every theater of war. U.S. Navy personnel formed the armed guard or guncrews for these ships.
Author : David Doyle
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764359590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Liberty Ships written by David Doyle and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although not a weapon in the traditional sense of the word, arguably no item in the Allied arsenal contributed as much to the defeat of the Axis during WWII as did the Liberty ships. The 2,710 Liberty ships placed into service between 1941 and 1945 provided a vital link in the supply chain not only of US but also Allied forces during WWII. Although the basic design itself was obsolete even before the first one slid down the builder's ways, it had the advantage of being relatively easy to produce, and simple to operate and maintain. Thus, the vessels were mass-produced by no fewer than eighteen shipyards. Building time, initially 244 days, dropped to forty-two days per ship, although as a publicity stunt the Robert E. Peary was launched four days and fifteen and a half hours after the keel was laid.
Author : Ian M. Malcolm
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144561247X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Life Aboard a Wartime Liberty Ship written by Ian M. Malcolm and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating and rarely told story of life on a one of the Liberty cargo ship in World War 2.
Author : Peter Elphick
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Liberty written by Peter Elphick and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Culminating with the efforts to preserve the last surviving examples of these great ships, this is a fascinating account of one of the greatest achievements in maritime history, and a fitting tribute to all those who made and sailed on the ships that won the war."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Walter W. Jaffee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781889901336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book SS Jeremiah O'Brien written by Walter W. Jaffee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Capt. Gardner Martin Kelley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477227903
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Murder on Liberty Ship Hull # 13 written by Capt. Gardner Martin Kelley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis The Liberty Ship Murder on Hull # 13, it will not be remembered for the murder which was of no importance except to the participants. What will be remembered are the antics of the shipyard stud by many of the young women on their lonely nights? My job was as an agent sent to the ship yard to investigate the demise of a woman worker. My interest was soon diverted to this brawny and horny young rigger named Kelley. Kelley worked hard at getting the ships ready for war. He also was very interested in helping as many girls and young women as possible from going man hungry. His dedication to the Liberty Ships and the ladies make interesting reading. Dead, she is dead. The man shook Ernest to reality. The slow learner had stood guard on the topside of the liberty ship. A man had gone down and forward to visit a woman worker reputed to be selling favors through the back door opening of her drawers. The man covered his badge number on his shirt with the bib of his overalls from Ernest and hurried away quickly. He went toward the huge gangway exit. This was to fool the retard. Ernest saw the man turn aft to his job aboard the ship but did not know the worker. His overall figure looked no different to describe than of a hundred other workers on the liberty ship. Ernest went on with his business as usual. When he was walking around below he saw the body of a dead woman. Ernest was confused, but finally came up and reported finding the dead woman. The shipyard officials called the police and they sent me to find out how the woman had been killed and who had done it. The End
Author : L. A. Sawyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (841 download)
Download or read book The Liberty Ships written by L. A. Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederic Chapin Lane
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867521
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Ships for Victory written by Frederic Chapin Lane and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-09-21 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of America's intensive shipbuilding programme during World War II, this explores the development of revolutionary construction methods and the recruitment, training, housing and union activities of the workers.
Author : James Scott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439166056
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Attack on the Liberty written by James Scott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the infamous 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli forces and the continuing controversy over what really happened. • Notorious incident: In 1967, Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats attacked the spy ship uSS Liberty in international waters during the Six-Day War. Thirty-four sailors were killed and more than 170 wounded, many critically injured. Israel claimed mistaken identity, which a U.S. naval court of inquiry confirmed, but that explanation is contradicted by the facts of the case. • Based on new revelations: James Scott has interviewed Liberty survivors, senior u.S. political and intelligence officials, and examined newly declassified documents in Israel and the united States to write this comprehensive, dramatic account. He reveals that officers in Israel’s chain of command were aware of the Liberty’s identity and shows how events in Vietnam prompted the American government to deemphasize the attack despite widespread disbelief of Israel’s story. • Journalist and son of an attack survivor: Scott’s father, John, was an officer and engineer aboard the Liberty who was awarded the Silver Star for helping to save the ship from sinking.
Author : PETER J. MARSH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526783059
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Liberty Factory written by PETER J. MARSH and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churchill famously claimed that the only thing that had really frightened him during the war was the Battle of the Atlantic. Keeping open the lifeline between the US "arsenal of democracy" and the UK was essential to preparations for the invasion of Europe and in the final analysis this came down to building merchant ships faster than German U-boats could sink them. Crucial to this achievement was the British-designed "Liberty Ship," a simple cargo ship that could be built rapidly, combined with the untapped industrial potential of the U.S. that could build them in vast numbers. Undoubtedly the most important individual in the rapid expansion of U.S. wartime shipyard capacity was Henry Kaiser, a man with no previous shipbuilding experience but an entrepreneur of vision and drive. This book tells the story of how he established huge new yards using novel mass-production techniques in the most surprising location--Oregon, one of the least industrially developed areas of the US and one without an existing pool of skilled labor to draw on.
Author : Walter W. Jaffee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781889901251
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Liberty Ships from A (A.B. Hammond) to Z (Zona Gale) written by Walter W. Jaffee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive. The complete history of the 2,710 Liberty ships built by the U.S. Maritime Commission during World War II. Includes development, shipyards, who the ships were named after, what happened to each vessel from launching to demise. Also an index of all Liberty ship names and a general index.
