SS Jeremiah O'Brien
SS Jeremiah O'Brien
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| Name: | Jeremiah O'Brien |
| Namesake: | Jeremiah O'Brien |
| Owner: | War Shipping Administration |
| Operator: | Grace Line, Inc. |
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| Builder: | New England Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Yard number: | 230 |
| Laid down: | 6 May 1943 |
| Launched: | 19 June 1943 |
| In service: | 3 July 1943 |
| Out of service: | 7 February 1946 |
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| Status: | Active; Museum ship |
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| Class and type: | EC2-S-C1 (Liberty ship) |
| Displacement: | 14,245 short tons (12,923 t) |
| Length: | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
| Beam: | 57 ft (17 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft 9 in (8.46 m) |
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| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
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SS Jeremiah O'Brien
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| Location | San Francisco, California |
| Coordinates | 37°48′40″N 122°25′5″W / 37.81111°N 122.41806°WCoordinates: 37°48′40″N 122°25′5″W / 37.81111°N 122.41806°W |
| Built | 1943 |
| Architect | New York Shipbuilding Corp. |
| NRHP Reference # | 78003405 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 7 June 1978 |
| Designated NHL | 14 January 1986 |
SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a Liberty ship built during World War II and named for American Revolutionary War ship captain Jeremiah O'Brien (1744–1818).
Now based in San Francisco, she is a rare survivor of the 6,939-ship armada that stormed Normandy on D-Day, 1944.
Jeremiah O'Brien, SS John W. Brown, and SS Hellas Liberty are the only currently operational Liberty ships of the 2,710 built.
The SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a class EC2-S-CI ship, built in just 56 days at the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in South Portland, Maine and launched on 19 June 1943. Deployed in the European Theater of Operations, she made four round-trip convoy crossings of the Atlantic and was part of the Operation Neptune invasion fleet armada on D-Day. Following this she was sent to the Pacific Theater of Operations and saw 16 months of service in both the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean calling at ports in Chile, Peru, New Guinea, the Philippines, India, China, and Australia.
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