0447 - Joseph G. Cannon 3126 - J. Howland Gardner - USAT; AG 166- AGTR 3 Jamestown 1790 - John J. McGraw - Completed as Samariz Loan Great Britain; John 0625 - Thomas Ewing - AK 111 Giansar Between 1930 and 1937, U.S. shipyards built only 71 merchant ships. 0963 - Edward N. Hurley 0658 - Brockholst Livingston 2072 - Edward N. Westcott 2245 - William L. Sublette 1587 - M. H. De Young - IX 109 Antelope 1508 - Joe C. S. Blackburn 0891 - James Moore - WSAT (550) USAT 2480 - Hugh J. Kilpatrick 2038 - James Withycombe 2688 - Jose Pedro Varela 0853 - Edward Burleson 2775 - J. S. Hutchinson - USAT 0297 - Starr King - USAT 2400 - Patrick S. Mahony 2295 - Thomas Le Valley - Army Aircraft Repair Ship Maj. Gen. Walter R. 0595 - Peter Skene Ogden - USAT 1549 - Augustus Saint-Gaudens - USAT 1609 - Benjamin H. Grierson in about 70 days. 0681 - King S. Woolsey - WSAT (550) USAT 0069 - Daniel Boone - AK 136 Ara 0984 - John E. Schmeltzer - WSAT (550) USAT 1707 - John S. Bassett 2938 - Nathaniel Scudder - Army Aircraft Repair Ship Brig. 2271 - Silvestre Escalante 2435 - Samhorn - Loan Great Britain 0085 - Stephen Johnson Field - USAT 1963 - J. S. Cullinan - AK 116 Alderamin 440 tanks, or 230 million rounds of rifle ammunition. Blanche F. 0735 - William G. Fargo 1518 - Isaac Shelby - USAT 2922 - Sul Ross 2738 - Alice H. Rice 0043 - Theodore Foster - USAT Her three-cylinder, reciprocating steam engine, fed 0562 - William H. Seward 2280 - Joe Harris 2616 - Lawrence J. Brengle 0604 - John S. Copley - USAT 1118 - Edward A. MacDowell 2436 - A. Mitchell Palmer - USAT 1216 - Owen Wister - USAT, 1655 2911 - Katherine L. Bates The 250,000 parts were 1919 - Thomas F. Cunningham 0687 - John M. Clayton - IX 225 Harcourt 2146 - Benjamin H. Brewster 2414 - Eloy Alfaro 0072 - Nathan Hale - USAT 2513 - Fred C. Stebbins 0054 - John P. Poe 0009 - Thomas Lynch - USAT 1829 - Leo J. Duster 2431 - Isaac Van Zandt 0005 - Alexander H. Stephens - USAT 1971 - Philip Doddridge 3060 - Loammi Baldwin 1705 - Floyd Bennett | 78,881 followers on LinkedIn. 0834 - John Bell 0909 - David Caldwell - USAT 0432 - Joseph Holt - USAT 0029 - George Calvert (II) 2953 - Lorado Taft 1785 - George Uhler - USAT 2045 - John P. Gaines - USAT 0836 - James M. Porter 0305 - John Walker - WSAT (550) USAT 1839 - Israel Wheelen - Completed as Samport Loan Great Britain, 2709 0486 - O. Henry 2660 - Edward A. Savoy 0642 - Henry Ward Beecher - WSAT (550) USAT 0064 - John C. Fremont - USAT 2603 - Robert Ellis Lewis 2148 - Charles Devens - Completed as Samore Loan Great Britain; Samdel 2845 - Laurence J. Gallagher 2322 - Chief Osceola 1493 - Robert Trimble 2170 - Henry H. Blood 2176 - David Hewes 1802 - Simon B. Elliott - Completed as Samnesse Loan Great Britain 1708 - Joseph A. Holmes 0974 - William Pepper 1820 - Israel J. Merritt - Completed as Samflora Loan Great Britain 2777 - E. A. Burnett 0050 - William Wirt 0301 - Thomas McKean 0693 - Joseph H. Hollister - WSAT (550) USAT 1951 - Jose Navarro - USAT 2544 - Sherwood Anderson 1209 - Edward M. House 0229 - Alexander Hamilton - USAT 0001 - J. L. M. Curry 2872 - James Swan 2401 - Richard A. 0123 - Abraham Baldwin 1984 - Arthur Dobbs - P. T. Barnum 0117 - Amelia Earhart - USAT 2595 - Leyte - ARG 8 1806 - "Lewis Emery - Jr." 1623 - Simon Bolivar 0167 - Nathaniel Alexander - USAT 0713 - Edward Livingston 2970 - Edwin S. Nettleton of Liberty Ship - Graphic presentation of capacity prepared 2537 - Enos A. 0812 - Henry Jocelyn Merchant Mariners. Nationally, the average construction time was 42 days and by 1943, three Liberty Ships were being completed each day. 0668 - Lincoln Steffens - WSAT (550) USAT 0236 - John Sevier 1990 - John Merrick 3072 - Bert Williams (I) - Completed as Belgian Unity Loan Belgium 1819 - Edward Bruce - Completed as Samoine Loan Great Britain; Edward 1050 - Joseph N. Nicollet 1590 - John Whiteaker - AK 140 Situla The company, part of industry giant GFG Alliance, will supply the transport, defence, and construction sectors as part of the UK government’s Build Back Better plan. 2834 - Benjamin A. Fisher 1878 - Samson Occum - Completed as Samarinda Loan Great Britain 2928 - Minor C. Keith 1996 - James I. McKay - USAT 1205 - Thomas Sully 2784 - Thomas F. Flaherty - Completed as Stalingrad Loan USSR 3027 - Joseph I. Kemp 3077 - Thomas F. Meagher 0261 - Richard Stockton - Belgian Loyalty Loan Belgium Instead of the industry average of 230 days, Kaiser shipyards initially reduced construction time to an average of 45 days and ultimately to less than three weeks. 1027 - Robert Bacon 2507 - Telfair Stockton 2741 - Morgan Robertson 1535 - John Barton Payne - USAT 2746 - John H. Thomas Merchant Marine Library Association] 1777 - Orville P. Taylor - Completed as Samothrace 0111 - A. P. Hill - WSAT (550) USAT 2269 - George Coggeshall - Completed as Sukhona Loan USSR 2680 - Kermit Roosevelt - Deal Island; ARG 16 Kermit Roosevelt 2309 - J. H. Drummond 2863 - Jacob Sloat Fassett 2606 - Samshee - Loan Great Britain 2378 - Duncan L. Clinch 0638 - Wendell Phillips - USAT 3024 - Samsmola - Loan Great Britain Based on a British design, it could be mass-produced cheaply and quickly using assembly-line methods and could easily be converted to individual military service needs. 0087 - William M. Stewart 3053 - William Lyon Phelps 3102 - Lawrence T. Sullivan - Completed as Belgian Amity Loan Belgium 0897 - Jonathan Worth - WSAT (550) USAT The ships received their popular name as a result of a public relations effort to counter their homely design. 2341 - Dudley H. Thomas - USAT; YAGR 14 Interpreter AGR 14 0553 - James W. Nesmith - WSAT (504) USAT 1755 - Edwin L. Drake 1965 - Matthew J. O'Brien 2329 - Charles H. Marshall 2931 - Rufus Choate 1898 - Thomas H. Gallaudet - Loan USSR Maikop 1542 - Walter L. Fleming 1995 - Chatham C. Lyon 0328 - John Fitch - USAT 0944 - Nathan Clifford - USAT 1721 - Brander Matthews 0962 - John Banvard - WSAT (504) USAT 0745 - William C. Gorgas 0573 - Mark Hanna As the Suez Canal neared completion in 1869, French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi … 0498 - Robert H. Harrison - WSAT (550) USAT to the public for tours and occasional cruises. 0051 - Reverdy Johnson - WSAT (550) USAT 0783 - Emma Willard - WSAT (550) USAT 0268 - Theodore Sedgwick - USAT 2972 - Clarence Roberts 0936 - Horace Gray 3139 - Claude Kitchin - USAT; YAG 42-YAGR 2-AGR 2 Lookout 2737 - Carl B. Eielson 1194 - John Gorrie 1629 - De Witt Clinton - Completed as Sevastopol Loan USSR 2996 - Willard R. Johnson - USAT 1064 - Joseph Habersham - USAT 0546 - Jason Lee - USAT 2586 - Morris Sigman 2249 - Charles F. Amidon - USAT 0162 - Alexander Martin - USAT 2062 - R. P. Warner 2935 - Betram G. Goodhue 2417 - Samesk - Loan Great Britain Consequently, all the EC2 type of emergency cargo ships came to … 1666 - David E. Hughes 2591 - Saminver - Loan Great Britain 1665 - Jacob S. Mansfield 3007 - Samdaring - Loan Great Britain 3121 - Cornelius Ford 1490 - William B. 1203 - William Byrd 0510 - J. 0542 - George Washington Carver - USAT Hospital Dogwood A member of Royal Caribbean's Freedom class of ships, Liberty of the Seas is a large ship that can feel crowded but is ideal for families and offers peace and quiet if you know where to find it. 2532 - Lewis L. Dyche - USAT 1501 - Henry W. Grady 2287 - John L. Stoddard 0852 - James E. Haviland - USAT 1225 - William Kent - USAT 0903 - Roger Moore 2999 - Alfred L. Baxley - Completed as Lektor Garbo 0239 - John Harvard - WSAT (550) USAT 1800 - Adolph Lewisohn - Completed as Samota Loan Great Britain 2744 - Cornelius Vanderbilt USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the 2816 - Jagger Seam 0771 - Augustine Heard 0557 - Daniel H. Lownsdale - WSAT (550) USAT 0026 - Francis L. Lee - WSAT (550) USAT “She’ll carry a good load. 0800 - William Sturgis 0086 - Joseph McKenna 2323 - Richard Halliburton 2001 - Thomas Pollock 2963 - Richard J. Hopkins - USAT 3075 - Matthew Sheehan 2239 - J. Frank Cooper 2942 - Tomas Guardia 1009 - Robert Erskine - USAT 0124 - Theodoric Bland - WSAT (504) USAT 2107 - John G. North - Completed as Samark Loan Great Britain ships, the SS Jeremiah O'Brien in San Francisco and the SS John Cornell Maritime Press, Cambridge, 0831 - James Barbour - WSAT (550) USAT 0012 - Israel Putman 2009 - William H. Gray 1559 - James Harlan 2818 - Benjamin Silliman 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. 1021 - George Vickers 2951 - Ida Strauss 2044 - Samuel K. Barlow 1017 - Jose Marti 0335 - Julia Ward Howe - USAT 2602 - Sameden - Loan Great Britain 2858 - Roda Seam 2571 - Gabriel Franchere 1853 - Samforth - Loan Great Britain 0445 - George B. Cortelyou - AK 77 Cetus 1688 - Granville Stuart - Completed as Samaritan 0497 - John Blair - WSAT (550) USAT 0705 - Howard Stansbury 2231 - Jack Singer 0290 - George Thacher - USAT 0682 - Archbishop Lamy - WSAT (550) USAT 0487 - F. Marion Crawford - WSAT (550) USAT 0954 - William Osler - USAT hospital ship Wisteria 1613 - James W. Grimes 0689 - Lewis Cass - USAT 0989 - Thomas F. Bayard - completed as Edvard Grieg E. Peary was built in four and a half days. 3100 - George N. Drake - Completed as Carl Oftedal 2160 - Frank A. Munsey 0188 - John G. Whittier - USAT 27 Westbrook Way Brown This was made possible by changes to construction methods, as well as the standardized Liberty freighter and similar T2 tanker designs. He was the only person to 2144 - Henry M. Teller - Completed as Chung Shan [Sun Yat Sen] Loan China 2954 - Howard L. Gibson 0070 - Robert Morris 2498 - Robert Mills - USAT 2605 - Samlea - Loan Great Britain 2977 - Paul David Jones The first of the 2,711 Liberty ships was the SS Patrick Henry, launched on Sept. 27, 1941, and built to a standardized, mass produced design. 0243 - Kit Carson 1699 - William F. Vilas - Completed as Samana Loan Great Britain 1910 - Ralph A. Cram - USAT 0019 - John Randolph [see Links]. 0257 - Francis Lewis - USAT 2676 - Charles C. Glover 2608 - Samspelga - Loan Great Britain 2127 - Jose J. Acosta 2274 - Henry White 2967 - Anson Mills 0176 - John Hancock 0590 - S. M. Babcock 2649 - Assistance - AR 17; Loan Great Britain HMS Assistance The design was an enhancement of the Liberty ship, which had been successfully produced in extraordinary numbers. 2910 - Morris Sheppard 2569 - James B. Miller 0839 - Jubal A. 2272 - George Clement Perkins 3062 - Robert R. McBurney 1041 - Henry S. Foote In the nineteenth century 1,871 slave ships were impounded by anti-slave-trade patrols. 1877 - Albert P. Ryder 1643 - Andrew Rowan - USAT AK 113 Ruticulus 0597 - Samuel J. Tilden - WSAT (504) USAT 2539 - John Davey of Shipyards which built Liberty ships and list of Liberty ships built 3141 - Frank Flowers - USAT 0169 - Benjamin Smith - USAT 2049 - J. D. Ross 2639 - Samluzon - Loan Great Britain 2620 - Deborah Gannett 3057 - Frank P. Reed 2117 - William W. Campbell 0686 - James Buchanan 1684 - William R. Nelson - AK 105 Naos 2333 - Wendell L. Willkie 2833 - Carl Zachary Webb - USAT There were some 443 shipwrecks of slave ships, while more than 800 vessels were seized by privateers. 2599 - Samconon - Loan Great Britain Like ; Actions ; Re: Liberty Ships. 3059 - Elijah Cobb 0651 - Samuel Heintzelman - USAT The number of LCS ships is not finalised but speculated to be up to 60, within a total US naval fleet of 375 ships. 1675 - Joseph Priestley 0545 - Matthew P. Deady - USAT 3080 - Cuttyhunk Island - AG 75 2842 - Linton Seam 0207 - John Carver 2236 - Raymond T. Baker - USAT 0622 - Samuel D. Ingham - USAT 2369 - Thomas B. 1813 - Priscilla Alden - Completed as Samlouis Loan Great Britain, 2017 1010 - John Wanamaker - USAT 0242 - John Adams - USAT Ships 0899 - Elisha Mitchell 0022 - Carter Braxton of the 4-H movement in Kansas, the first Ukrainian immigrant to America, 0894 - William D. Pender - WSAT (550) USAT Young - Completed as Samspring Loan Great Britain 1864 - Edwin Abbey - USAT A. Vanderlip 2282 - William Allen White 0941 - William R. Day 2975 - Cyril G. Hopkins - Completed as Navarchos Koundouriotis 1519 - E. Kirby Smith 2957 - Irving Babbitt 1053 - Casimir Pulaski - USAT 2026 - Thomas Nuttall 0793 - George Cleeve - USAT 1529 - Duncan U. Fletcher 0924 - Daniel Chester French 3107 - Elwin F. Knowles 3058 - Michael Anagnos 2861 - Mingo Seam 0092 - James Ford Rhodes - WSAT (550) USAT 0710 - Edmund Fanning 1656 - Thomas Oliver Larkin - AK 99 Bootes 2918 - Daniel E. Garrett - Army aircraft Repair Ship Maj. Gen. Robert 3143 - Joseph V. Connolly - USAT 0107 - Benjamin Huntington - WSAT (550) USAT - Vachel Lindsay 1054 - Hamlin Garland - USAT 1500 - Horace H. Lurton 2696 - Thomas F. Hunt 0684 - Louis McLane - WSAT (550) USAT 2478 - Thomas J. Lyons 0731 - Knute Nelson 0572 - Samuel Seabury - USAT 0915 - James Caldwell - USAT 0680 - Sebastian Vizcaino 0581 - Joseph N. Teal - WSAT (550) USAT 0052 - John H. B. Latrobe 2832 - Herrin Seam 1703 - Winfield S. Stratton 2559 - Elinor Wylie - IX 223 Triana 2453 - Harry Toulmin - Completed as AK 133 Seginus 2629 - Samsoaring - Loan Great Britain 0427 - Elihu Thomson 0504 - Melville W. Fuller - AK 75 Cassiopeia 0667 - William Eaton 0817 - Tobias Lear - Completed as Fort Orange USAT B. Perrine - Completed as Eleftheria 2955 - Thomas Eakins 1569 - Adolph Sutro 3142 - Edwin H. Duff - USAT; YAGR 13- AGR 13 Interdictor 1695 - William N. Byers 0672 - Frank Joseph Irwin - USAT 0295 - William F. Cody - WSAT (550) USAT 2385 - John H. Hammond - J. C. Osgood 2641 - Samindoro - Loan Great Britain in parentheses shows the number of troops the ship could hold. 1799 - Lyon G. Tyler - Completed as Samnebra Loan Great Britain, 2390 1773 - Charles C. Long - Completed as Samur Loan Great Britain The 250,000 parts were pre-fabricated throughout the country in 250-ton sections and welded together in about 70 days. 1683 - Anson P. K. Safford 0251 - John Wise - USAT 1214 - Napoleon B. Broward - AK 119 Matar 2088 - John F. Myers 2190 - Jeremiah L. Chaplin - Completed as Samakron Loan Great Britain 2300 - Jean Ribaut 1566 - Irving M. Scott 0791 - Eugene Hale - WSAT (550) USAT 1195 - Francis Asbury - USAT 0739 - Benjamin N. Cardozo - Completed as AK 97 Serpens 0580 - James B. Stephens 1886 - James Cook 3120 - Frank Gilbreth 0632 - Peter Cartwright - USAT Various combinations of derricks, winches, and deck cranes are used for the handling of cargo. 2192 - Mary Wilkins Freeman 2642 - William Hodson (II) - Completed as Chung Tung 1624 - Louis Agassiz - Completed as Emilian Pugachev Loan USSR 2966 - Paul Bunyan United States Maritime Commission in World War II. 1595 - Morton M. McCarver 1647 - Jose Sepulveda 1824 - John T. Clark - Completed as Samcleve Loan Great Britain 2273 - Gilbert M. Hitchcock - USAT 0172 - William Clark 2888 - Rudolph Kauffmann - USAT 3116 - Stanley R. Fisher 2472 - Edward A. Filene Her 5 holds could carry over 9,000 tons of cargo, plus airplanes, tanks, 0263 - William Williams - AK 135 Venus 0664 - Benjamin R. Curtis - USAT 1237 - Jack London 0394 - Francisco Coronado [1748] 1818 - Charles Scribner 2765 - Charles John Seghers 0975 - Silas Weir Mitchell 1816 - Edwin A. Robinson - Completed as Samsip Loan Great Britain 0475 - Frances E. Willard 1804 - Stage Door Canteen 2932 - Gus W. Darnell - USAT IX 228 Justin 0842 - William N. Pendleton 0437 - Robert T. Lincoln - AK 72 Aldura 3123 - Nelson W. Aldrich The ship has 12 cabins with accommodation for 24 guests. 0185 - Henry W. Longfellow - WSAT AP USAT 1547 - Minnie M. Fiske 2698 - Justo Arosemena, 2175 0858 - Mary Austin - USAT 0098 - Winfield Scott - USAT 2104 - James J. O. Kelly 2450 - James B. Aswell 0787 - Mary Lyon 2141 - John W. Hoyt 0691 - Elihu B. Washburne 0600 - William T. Sherman - USAT 0623 - George W. Campbell - WSAT (550) USAT 0931 - Woodbridge N. Ferris 2261 - Francis W. Parker 1761 - William S. Thayer 0265 - Stephen F. Austin - USAT 1619 - George H. Flanders - USAT 2545 - Philip C. Shera 1716 - Henry V. Alvarado 1825 - Francis C. Harrington 0802 - George F. Patten 3026 - John Chester Kendall - USAT 1855 - Robert G. Ingersoll - USAT If you see substantial portions of It contained nothing but some trash and a few puddles of water. 2623 - Samfaithful - Loan Great Britain 1515 - Joseph M. Terrell 1511 - David B. Johnson 0053 - Richard H. Alvey 1612 - Albert B. Cummins - USAT This model represents one of the 2,710 Liberty ships built during World War II. 0327 - David Bushnell 3068 - William A. Dobson (I) - Completed as Iolanda AKS 14 0310 - William Grayson - USAT 1814 - Theodore Roosevelt - AKN 1 Indus 2771 - Louis Weule 0442 - Henry J. Raymond 2005 - Ignatius Donnelly - USAT 1874 - Don Marquis - USAT - IX 215 1803 - George M. Shriver - Completed as Viggo Hansteen 2263 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen 0430 - Charles M. Conrad 2347 - Frank O. Peterson - USAT; YAGR 6-AGR 6 Locator 0228 - Henry Middleton - WSAT (550) USAT 0887 - Matt W. Ransom 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. - C. Francis Jenkins - USAT Drain 2247 - W. W McCrackin 0323 - Joseph Hooker - WSAT (550) USAT 1649 - Charles Lummis - WSAT AP USAT 2704 - Albert A. Robinson - USAT "C1" the specific ship design and modification number. 1901 - David Rittenhouse - IX 112 Beagle In addition to Liberty ships, Kaiser’s shipyards built Casablanca-class escort carriers, troop carriers, LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks) and other vessels. The liberty ships; The history of the"emergency" 2504 - C. W. 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