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Liberty Ships
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:50 am
by Niner
From the Mobile Alabama museum. Mobile was where a lot of Liberty Ships were made and after the war great fleets were stored for decades in the Mobile delta and known as the Ghost Fleet. Now they have all been scrapped.
Re: Liberty Ships
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 1:44 pm
by DuncaninFrance
A drawing of one that was sunk off Plymouth in 1945.
Invented by Great Britain............
Re: Liberty Ships
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 9:20 pm
by Niner Delta
Yes Duncan, they were a British concept, but I can't find any record of UK building any of them.
"The class was developed to meet British orders for transports to replace ships that had been lost.
Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945 (an average of three ships every two days),
easily the largest number of ships ever produced to a single design."
Robert, On your sign, notice the drop in "Days On Ways" from over 9 months to 2 months, in just 2 years.
Here is a list of Liberty Ships and Tankers built at ADDSCO during WWII.
https://www.southalabama.edu/libraries/ ... /ships.pdf
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Re: Liberty Ships
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:10 am
by DuncaninFrance
I thought I had posted this before Vern but it is a very interesting book if you can find a copy.