Exploring a Renovated WW2 Liberty Ship (SS Hellas Liberty) in Greece

Port of Piraeus, the SS HELLAS LIBERTY ship - Greece (S.S. ΕΛΛΑΣ ΛΙΜΠΕΡΤΥ). The last Liberty Ship tour, a Liberty Ship (SS HELLAS LIBERY) from the second world war in Piraeus. Let's go to the port of the Greek capital of Athens, the city of Piraeus (Πειραιάς) and let's visit one of the last Liberty ships (SS HELLAS LIBERTY) that survives from the second world war. The SS Hellas Liberty ship was a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.
The SS Hellas Liberty is Liberty class ship launched in 1943 by St. John’s River Shipbuilding Company. The Liberty Ship was converted into a pipe carrier in 1944 and used in the construction of a fuel pipeline under the English Channel following the Normandy landing. After the war she was laid up. She was chartered by AT&T in 1956 and converted into a cable ship. In 1957 she was transferred to the US reserve fleet until 1964. Later she was classified as a barge and again laid up at the James River in 1983. After that many components including the rudder were removed and used as spare parts for the SS “JOHN W. BROWN”.
Though British in conception, the design of the Liberty Ship was adapted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Mass-produced on an unprecedented scale, the Liberty ship came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output.
The Liberty Ship class was developed to meet British orders for transports to replace those torpedoed by German U-boats. The vessels were purchased both for the U.S. fleet and lend-lease deliveries of war materiel to Britain and the Soviet Union. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945, easily the largest number of ships produced to a single design.
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