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

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2 жыл бұрын

Big plans are in motion for the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, the liberty ship in San Francisco that survived D-Day and escaped a recent waterfront fire. Allen Martin reports. (3-13-22)

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@michaelm7422 2 ай бұрын

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

@frankaxiak1959 Жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@csttd1126 25 күн бұрын

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.

@hcsanford 2 жыл бұрын

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

@bsa45acp Жыл бұрын

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

@papa_peppermint 2 ай бұрын

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.

@underthebluetakemein. 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jeffreymiller6847 8 ай бұрын

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

@gboanavycommunitygbonm-gbons 4 ай бұрын

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

@Dog.soldier1950 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a time machine back to a different era

@michelgalitzin685 Жыл бұрын

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.

@patriciasanders8523 Жыл бұрын

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

@Lion_McLionhead 2 жыл бұрын

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

@kimmer6 2 жыл бұрын

His belt scares me.

@shanerobinson7128 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mauer594 Жыл бұрын

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

@ronshelleyburks6673 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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.

@brianhall1129 8 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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.

@dennisyoung4631 7 ай бұрын

*Awesome Engine Room!*

@RailPreserver2K Жыл бұрын

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

@bsa45acp Жыл бұрын

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

@herrprepper2070 6 ай бұрын

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

@shanerobinson7128 2 жыл бұрын

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

@stevegosnell1435 6 ай бұрын

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

@silverpairaducks 2 жыл бұрын

Wow

@EnterpriseXI Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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.

@mikecorleone6797 Жыл бұрын

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

@ggetoile 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

S.S.ALKIMOS

@ANYA.RIZALI 2 жыл бұрын

meow meow

@snkrway4592 2 жыл бұрын

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

@shanerobinson7128 2 жыл бұрын

What??

@jarrodyuki7081 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Goomba_N64 2 жыл бұрын

Wtf you weirdo

@milesmayhem5440 2 жыл бұрын

Cope.

@ggetoile 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Ill pray for you

@shanerobinson7128 2 жыл бұрын

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