Talk:Liberty ship

message: Another interesting "Liberty ship" tid-bit is that one of them, the SS Benjamin R. Curtis, launched by the California Shipbuilding Co. in November of 1942, later became the SS Grandcamp which was the ship that exploded and caused the massive Texas City disaster in 1947.
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Somebody screwed up somewhere. This page says complement is 41; the John W. Brown page says twice that, incl merchant mariners & Navy officers. So?  Trekphiler 02:49, 6 January 2006 & 20:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really a screwup. The normal crew complement for a Liberty varied depending on circumstances, and was about 28-34 merchant crew, plus varying numbers of US Naval Armed Guard to man the guns. The SS John W Brown was one of the 222 Liberty ships converted to limited-capacity troop carriers. As such she was fitted with extra anti-aircraft guns. This meant that she, and the other troop transports, carried more USNAG members than the average Liberty  -- Oldfarm 00:34, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Very belated :( :( thx.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  20:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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message: The page appears to have been deleted. Anybody know if this is true and if so why? Or is it just me? AJB93 16:22, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where'd it go? 

message: What happened to the Canadian-built ships? There were a few 100 built here.... TREKphiler hit me ♠  11:52, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, but there were no Liberty ships built in Canada. During WWII, large numbers of the British built "North Sands" class merchant vessel were built in Britain, USA, and Canada. The American built Ocean class, and the Canadian built Fort and Park classes were forerunners of the US redesigned and built Liberty ships, while the US designed and built Victory ship was an entirely new type. Oldfarm (talk) 04:02, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oh, Canada 

message: I have been deleting promotion of a book by Ion Livas. No promotion is allowed on Wikipedia. Somebody really wants the book to appear, in all capital letter, too. Binksternet (talk) 08:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
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message: Weapons on Liberty ship?--Falkmart (talk) 13:27, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Liberty ships were commercial type vessels, not war ships in the naval sense (despite the comment above). During WW II all U.S. ocean going ships came under the authority of the War Shipping Administration for allocation to either pure wartime "commercial" transport use or either Navy or Army charter or full allocation. Every ship possible was given some self defense armament during those war years and by the end almost all had some sort of gun, often whatever could be found and mounted without taking current production from active forces in the early years, with Navy Armed Guard unit to man it or in some cases them. Only hospital ships, prevented by the applicable conventions requiring precise marking, paint, lights and such were prevented from carrying arms—down to inspection of baggage to make sure not so much as a private pistol or a few cartridges did not make it aboard. Army transports were essentially commercial in nature, civilian crewed. Only Liberty and Victory types assigned to the Navy got any sort of standard armament. Palmeira (talk) 13:42, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: "Not war ships" yet on January 22 until January 30, 1944 in the Battle of Anzio at least one the SS Lawton B. Evans was used as a war ship. I see maybe 4 at Anzio in a January 22 photo why is their no mention of this in the Liberty ship article?Wikiinfomation (talk) 03:17, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  "Weapons on Liberty ship?" Yes, as mentioned above look at the shell size of the SS Lawton B. Evans in this photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SS_Lawton_B._Evans_Shell_practice.jpg I think it needs to be added to this article for histories sake.Wikiinfomation (talk) 03:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weapons 

message: In September 1943 strategic plans and shortage of more suitable hulls required that Liberty ships be pressed into emergency use as troop transports with about 225 eventually converted for this purpose.[20] The first general conversions were hastily undertaken by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) so that the ships could join convoys on the way to North Africa for Operation Torch  This doesn't compute; the Torch landings were in November 1942 Solicitr (talk) 16:25, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date inconsistency 

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message: I've always felt that the M1 Garand, the T-34, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress+North American P-51 Mustang, Bletchley Park and the Liberty ship were the weapons which won WWII. Should we be seeking to add any sources which reference things like this? Xerton (talk) 02:46, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idea? 

message: According to this article, the SS Albert M. Boe is one of four surviving Liberty Ships. According to the article SS John W. Brown, the Brown is one of three, as the Albert M. Boe is not considered. The article SS Jeremiah O'Brien also does not include the Boe (it says that there are three operational liberty ships left (including SS Arthur M. Huddell which doesn't move under its own power, altho it floats).
The SS Albert M. Boe  is described as "currently landlocked", and actually as "grounded" in its infobox, so I assume it is not actually afloat (or, probably, capable of floating anymore). Whether its been internally gutted or not I can't tell (it's certainly not derelict). FWIW the lede for that article begins with "SS Albert M. Boe was a Liberty ship..." (note past tense).
Whether the Boe should or should not be considered a "surviving Liberty Ship" I don't know or care, but if you do, speak; I just want it to be consistent across all the articles. Herostratus (talk) 16:27, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the [[SS Albert M. Boe]] a "surviving Liberty Ship" or not. 

message: The lede produces the question: "if the Liberty ships were produced to be supplied to the British, how many did they get?" GraemeLeggett (talk) 20:04, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  purpose and deliveries