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.

Fictional appearances

In David Gerrold's Star Wolf novels, liberty ships were destroyer-type warships designed to be cheaply mass-produced in an effort to rapidly beef up the human starfleets. The ships were assigned hull numbers (example: LS-1187), and were required to be victorious in space combat before they could take on an official name chosen by a majority vote of the ship's crew.

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