Liberty ship

The Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. They were cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. Based on vessels ordered by Britain to replace ships torpedoed by German U-boats, they were purchased for the U.S. fleet and for lend-lease provision to Britain. Sixteen American shipyards built 2,751 Liberties between 1941 and 1945, easily the largest number of ships produced to a single design.

External links

• Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II
• Links to Liberty Ship information
• SS Jeremiah O'Brien website (one of two still operational liberty ships)
• SS John W. Brown website (one of two still operational liberty ships)
• Liberty Ships and Victory Ships, America's Lifeline in Warfor a lesson on Liberty ships and Victory ships from the National Park Service's Teaching with Historic Places.
• Amercian Victory
• See

http://www.damsbridgesandships.com/page3.html

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