Author : Adolph A. Hoehling
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
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 : Sherod Cooper
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
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 This book is based on logs, official documents, and reports in the National Archives, on the collection of unpublished Navy administrative histories in the Navy Department library, and on diaries, letters, and recollections of men who sailed on the Brown.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
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0786479450
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 : Adolph A. Hoehling
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780608002569
Author : Stephen M. Carter
Publisher : Century of the Soldier
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913118884
This book offers a fresh and vibrant account of the military campaign of Argyll and Monmouth that concludes at Sedgemoor in July 1685.
Author : Gerald Reminick
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Bari (Italy)
ISBN : 9781889901213
Author : Gerald Sandvick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1439660735
World War II hinged on the Allies having enough ships to both fight the enemy and to carry millions of tons of war goods across the world's oceans. Shipyards on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts built thousands of vessels, but America's sometimes forgotten Fourth Coast, the Great Lakes, built hundreds of ships as well. From 1940 to 1945, warships, cargo haulers, Coast Guard tenders, and fleet service auxiliaries of many types were launched from the two cities of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, which lie at the far western end of Lake Superior. During the war, half a dozen shipyards in Duluth-Superior produced more than 200 vessels of 10 main types, up to 338 feet long and 5,000 tons, all having to make close to a 2,400-mile journey to the ocean. The shipyards grew from nearly nothing in 1939 to become industries employing thousands of men and women by 1945 and making a major contribution to the story of America in World War II.
Author : Herman E. Rosen
Publisher : Xlibris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : 9781413408508
A spellbinding war memoir of a torpedoing and the fight for survival of 24 men in a lifeboat. Hank Rosen, Cadet-Midshipman aboard a Liberty ship, tells the dramatic story of 30 days adrift in the Indian Ocean."Gallant Ship, Brave Men" is an epic tale of heroism and sacrifice that builds suspense and proudly records the role of the Merchant Marine in World War II. "What an amazing story! I found it completely engrossing. Couldn't stop reading it, until I finished." Vice Admiral Joseph Stewart USMS, Superintendent United States Merchant Marine Academy
Author : Marvin N. Olasky
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
New insights into the interplay of American politics, religion, sex, and revolution in the 18th century.
Author : Alan Burn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 1996-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0850525047
As Britain came terrifyingly close to running out of supplies during the Second World War, a group of retired senior naval officers returned to the sea in the role of convoy commanders, and thereby turned the tide.
