Beloved Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien to Be Made Sea-Worthy Again

[@papa_peppermint]

That ship is incredible. I took a tour of it when I was a kid in the early 2000's. It's a wonderful thing, well worth the drop into San Francisco to see it.

[@michaelm7422]

My grandfather served on this ship during the war and made 2 trips to the beaches of France & back 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅 I could not be more proud to have this in my heritage

[@csttd1126]

I had the honor to visit Jeremiah O'Brien before the fire...and it's such a beautiful ship...as a non us sailer...I love that ship..it's history...and worth taking care of.

[@frankaxiak1959]

Proud to have served on the SS Jeremiah O’Brien as a Kings Point Engine Cadet for a short while in the late 90s 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@harrykuheim6107]

I went on this Ship back in the 80s...My dad was a Cook on the USS Powell Liberty Ship '43-'44

[@underthebluetakemein.]

I cannot imagine not saving her....part of the greatest generation ❤ .

[@hcsanford]

That's the ship on which I came home from 2.5 years in Germany in 1966.

[@bsa45acp]

Not the O'Brien which was in storage in Suisun Bay from 1946 to 1973.

[@jeffreymiller6847]

shes not the only one the ss John W. Brown in Baltimore is in full sailing shape and does yearly cruises

[@gboanavycommunitygbonm-gbons]

and the Hellas Liberty in Greece ex SS Arthur M. Huddell

[@michelgalitzin685]

The SS John W Brown in Baltimore, was launched on Labor Day, 1942 from the Bethlehem Steel Fairfield Shipyard. She is restored and sails the Chesapeake Bay.

[@dennisyoung4631]

*Awesome Engine Room!*

[@Dog.soldier1950]

It’s a time machine back to a different era

[@brianhall1129]

Idk how they say it's the only Liberty ship fully functional because you also have the ss John w brown Liberty ship that visits and docked often in Baltimore i been on it twice ,

[@pauldavis8418]

She isn’t as sea worthy as the O’Brien. The Coast Guard would not allow her to return to the beaches for the Normandy Anniversary and only issued her a coast wise certificate of inspection.

[@herrprepper2070]

After the war, my uncle Bob came home on a Liberty ship, as did thousands of other boys who were killed overseas.

[@stevegosnell1435]

I was on the USS ALCOR, ak259 from 1966-1968 which was also a liberty ship

[@patriciasanders8523]

My Dad spent a summer as a welder building the SS Jeremiah O'Brien

[@Lion_McLionhead]

Ryan Szimanski is jealous.. Battleship museums aren't allowed to use their boilers.

[@kimmer6]

His belt scares me.

[@shanerobinson7128]

😂 yeah. I wish we could on the USS Hornet too

[@mauer594]

If only we could see the Iowas making a voyage again...

[@RailPreserver2K]

funny thing the last Liberty ship ever built is actually still in existence, it's currently serving as a cannery in Kodiak Alaska

[@bsa45acp]

It is a landlocked hull being used as a fish cannery.

[@ronshelleyburks6673]

My 16 year old dad was assigned to a brand new liberty ship, the USS Deimos at in early 1943. They went up to Pittsburg Ca and loaded ammunition for Guadalcanal. He had his 17th birthday on his wayto

[@ronshelleyburks6673]

New Caledonia. They then went to Guadalcanal to deliver bombs and ammo at Henderson Field. There , they and several other liberty's and LSTs were bombed and strafed by Japanese aircraft on June 15th, 1943, off Lunga Point. They were later torpedoed, along with the USS Aludra and sunk off San Cristpbel Is. Both ships were AKAs. The Deimos was AKA 78 and the Aludra was AKA 72. My dad was later assigned to the USS American Legion and landed troops at Bougainville.

[@shanerobinson7128]

Sea worthy again? I didn’t know it wasn’t sea worthy.

[@mikecorleone6797]

Wtfff I didn’t hear about all this.. the boiler donations 😭

[@EnterpriseXI]

I don’t think there was much to be concerned about with the O’Brien because she’s made of steel and unless she had flammable stuff on her deck I think she was safe from the fire

[@WesleyHarcourtSTEAMandMORE]

Radiant heat, with the water curtain, was enough to blister the paint. Without the water curtain it would have likely been enough heat for the steel (a great conductor) to conduct the heat to the tons of flammable materials inside the ship.

[@silverpairaducks]

Wow

[@ggetoile]

Funny how they were careful not to show the bare breasted sailor girl painted on the top front bow. It’s a fun cute image probably reminiscent of a ship’s historical figurehead.

[@kristoffermangila]

Well, at the time JO'B was launched and outfitted, the crew thought the ship would serve in the Pacific. Unfortunately (or fortunately) they were wrong...

[@gustavpedersen2461]

S.S.ALKIMOS

[@ANYA.RIZALI]

meow meow

[@snkrway4592]

The crazy granddaughter cranially tap because icicle impressively mug forenenst a scientific gun. macabre, harsh parallelogram

[@shanerobinson7128]

What??

[@jarrodyuki7081]

hate the word jeremiah or anything bible related!!!!!!!!!!

[@Goomba_N64]

Wtf you weirdo

[@milesmayhem5440]

Cope.

[@ggetoile]

Jarrod is an alternative spelling to Jared which is a BIBLICAL NAME deriving from Hebrew that means Decent, as on the Decent of the Word of God. 🙄. Self loathing dummy…

[@Dog.soldier1950]

Ill pray for you

[@shanerobinson7128]

Good for you. We really don’t care what you hate.