Liberty Ship S.S. John W. Brown, Underway in the Engine Room

[@scottybeegood]

Yeah, ditch the music. We want to hear the engine!

[@DaveDeBoer-g2f]

The music should be the engine and crew working together, I enjoy my time on board 😄

[@goropeza101]

Its hard to imagine that a ship this size went around the world on just one single propeller that was powered by a 2 cylinder steam piston engine! It did and is still working today!

[@pimpompoom93726]

Liberty ships used a 3 cylinder (triple expansion) steam engine, not two cylinder.

[@rxfire2437]

Why did someone have to add the music and wreck it??? :(

[@matthewbratton3825]

Stopped in Cleveland many years ago What a great ship from the past still going strong.

[@dwightarnold6980]

I'VE BEEN ON THE OLD SHIP MANY TIMES! CRUISING FROM A PORT IN BALTIMORE TO THE FRANCIS SCOTT KEY BRIDGE AND BACK ON VETERANS DAY! WITH THE HELP OF TUGS! BUT THE ENGINES ON THE SHIP WERE RUNNING! THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!

[@kpd3308]

Once again, with the music! Some additional lighting would have helped greatly too. But thank you none the less.

[@jimsonbrown9768]

The only problem with this video is its too short. And the music.

[@briannicholls187]

Stupid music drowning out the beautiful mechanical sound! How incompetent by the uploader

[@handyman3320]

Beautiful operation

[@Kris-qy7hh]

Why the music?

[@bogwin9621]

I saw the whole thing with one of the engineers while it cooled off after a cruise. Way cool.

[@charleschapman5536]

Nice video but music is disrespectful to her engineering! WTF?

[@DaveDeBoer-g2f]

A great machine to be a part of

[@georgeharleydavidsonrider156]

My dad work at the Fairfield Ship Yard in Baltimore during the 2nd World War . There may be a chance he worked on this ship . I went to Norfolk Virginia and rescued this ship from the James River Navel fleet back in the 1990s. This ship was built by the Greatest generation that ever walked on this earth. It’s good to see the John Brown here in Baltimore, Maryland where it belongs . 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@timmayer8723]

Oh the sound track??????????????

[@jamesdavis727]

When I was on her sister ship the Jeremiah O'Brien on Pier 39 in San Francisco, they said this engine room was actually used in the filming of Titanic. It was the scene when Jack and Rose are running thru the engine room. You can tour this ship for $20. You would love it.

[@atlantis0v-104]

Lol! They would have used John W. Brown's engine room for the movie!

[@atlantis0v-104]

And you're wrong! It's actually used in the scene where The iceberg is spotted and they Reverse the engine.

[@thenismoman4854]

Reciprocating engines like the titanic had

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Actually, the engine room scenes in Titanic were filmed in the Liberty ship Jeremiah O’Brian

[@boataxe4605]

Yes, but she did have a turbine for the center screw.

[@J-1410]

have one without music?

[@Meridianmulti]

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[@rdaw33]

How much horse power each?.........So cool to see it operating!!!!!

[@pimpompoom93726]

@Timothy Simpson Quite correct, about 2500 HP. Not the most efficient design even in 1940, but it could be made relatively cheaply and by American companies that didn't normally manufacture ship products.

[@flashesofblack4128]

It was a nice video, but that annoying and unnecessary music spoiled it. I don't know why people posting videos have to add music track?

[@franklynpolster8949]

Triple expansion steam engine

[@frankrobinsonjr3538]

Fantastic video except for the music!!

[@sbkenn1]

Were they oil-fired boilers ?

[@boataxe4605]

Yes.

[@pimpompoom93726]

US ships used oil fired boilers, some of the British ordered ships used coal fired-as they had much more reserves of coal in England than petroleum.

[@velezdragon3574]

I wanna work on a steamship in the engine room do they hire trainees?

[@jwindleicinet]

They do have an engine room training course. Check it out!

[@0011clem]

I don't think they were very fast , that's why a lot got sunk by u boats .

[@boataxe4605]

Top speed of 8 knots. They’d send a convoy of twenty and if fifteen reached their destination it was considered a success.

[@pimpompoom93726]

@@boataxe4605 Top speed of Liberty ships was 11 knots, Victory ships was 16-17 knots.

[@boataxe4605]

@@pimpompoom93726 I stand corrected, but my father was a Navy gunner stationed aboard them and he said that they cruised at around 8. Two of the ships that he was on were sunk right after he was transferred off of them.

[@captaingordon]

Cross the Atlantic or Pacific in one of these during WW2... Yah, no thank you!

[@aviator97msncom]

Actually there are at least 4. One of which is the SS America in Tampa Bay.

[@Meridianmulti]

The American Victory in Tampa Bay is a Victory ship, not a Liberty. She also has steam turbines, not a reciprocating steam engine.

[@aviator97msncom]

@@Meridianmulti My mistake, thanks for the corrections.

[@samanli-tw3id]

Iceberg! Full astern!

[@bradbrown8759]

Yea. I'm gonna put my finger in there.

[@Jack-hg1hq]

ruined it with awful music, just why.....

[@siegfriedobrabender4215]

Is this a steam or diesel engine?

[@rongeremy6970]

siegfriedo brabender this is a steam engine,, it appears to be a two cylinder, not sure if there's two engines ,, I'll have to do more research of the ship..

[@siegfriedobrabender4215]

Thank you!

[@jimsonbrown9768]

siegfriedo brabender : two boilers, one triple expansion engine.

[@Meridianmulti]

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[@sd0384]

the pistons look just like titanic my god :D

[@shtupidmate]

GamerWolf AJ I actually read somewhere they used the Liberty's engine room for titanic, and just made it bigger with CGI but don't quote me on that

[@deksea]

you are correct. But not the John Brown. It was Jerimiah O'Brien

[@sd0384]

?

[@deksea]

not following?

[@markbowles2382]

Lose music

[@nickkos6848]

AS a seaman 8 years on 5 liberty ships the decade of 60. IS THE SHIP PERMANENT IN BALTIMORE ? I LEAVE IN NEW YORK AND I LIKE TO GO TO SEE IT. I HAVE MEMORIES .

[@lemmingsfly]

My grandfather was a gunners mate on 5 different liberty ships during WW2