Liberty
Subtitle: the ships that won the war
By: Peter Elphick.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Liberty ships -- United States -- History.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 490-497)and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: IN THE BEGINNING; title: 1. The Parentage of the Liberty Ship; title: 2. The British Shipbuilding Mission to the United States; title: 3. Birth of the Liberty Ship; title: 4. The Shipyards and their Workers; title: 5. The Naming Game; title: 6. The Wartime Liberty Crews; title: 7. Close to Calamity: the Structural Failure Problem; title: PART II: THE LIBERTY AT WAR; title: 8. Ubiquity; title: 9. A Liberty versus a German Raider; title: 10. The North Atlantic; title: 11. Liberty Ships and the Northern Route to Russia; title: 12. Liberties and Operation 'Torch'; title: 13. Liberties as Troopships and Animal Transports; title: 14. Liberties in the Mediterranean; title: 15. The Poison Gas Disaster at Bari; title: 16. Liberties and the Allied Salvage Services; title: 17. Normandy and the Campaign in Europe; title: 18. 'Let Sleeping Wrecks Lie': The On-going Saga; title: of the Richard Montgomery; title: 19. Liberties in the Indian Ocean; title: 20. Liberties in the Pacific; title: 21. The Other Allied Liberties; title: PART III: AFTER THE WAR; title: 22. The Liberty Ship's Role in-Peacetime; title: 23. Tragedy off Porthcawl: The Loss of the Samtampa; title: 24. Lost without Trace; title: 25. More Post-war Disasters, Trials and Tribulations; title: 26. The Last Years of the Trading Liberties; title: 27. Treasure Hunt; title: 28. The Surviving Liberties; title: Appendices; title: Bibliography; title: Abbreviations; title: Index.