This is the history of the Liberty ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien, an active museum ship in San Francisco Bay. She is was the first ship to sail out of a mothball fleet under her own power. She was the only ship from the D-Day armada to return for the 50th Anniversary of that event in 1994. Through personal interviews and the diaries of the World War II crew, and personal accounts of the Return to Normandy voyage crew, the reader is aboard to share it all; sailing in convoy through ice storms, hurricanes and giant seas; dodging enemy wolf packs and torpedoes in the Battle of the Atlantic to deliver her cargoes of food, tanks, trucks, ammunition, oil and other supplies vitally needed on the war front; the awesome preparations for the great invasion; D-Day; the troop landings on the beaches of Normandy; an ammo ship in the Pacific; a thirty-year lay-up. Then come back aboard to share her second life as a national landmark, a time capsule and living history museum, and join her crew on the trip of a lifetime, her celebrated voyage back to Normandy fifty years after D-Day, the last survivor of the great armada. This second edition includes photos and events to the end of 2008.

SS Jeremiah O'Brien (2nd Edition), The History of a Liberty Ship From the Battle of the Atlantic to the 21st Century

Engineering & Transportation

Capt. Walter W. Jaffee

Transportation

The Glencannon Press

A complete encyclopedia of all the C-type freighters contracted for by the Maritime Commission and the Maritime Administration from the late 1930s to the present.

The Freighters From A(Adabelle Lykes) to Z(Zoella Lykes)

This book is about all the P-type troopships and passenger liners, the twin-stack Admiral class built in Alameda, California, and the twin-stack General class built in Kearny, New Jersey. Also included are the passenger liners built by the Maritime Commission and the Maritime Administration. It begins with the U.S. emergency shipbuilding program which started in the 1930s and the evolution of transporting troops and passengers by sea. Every P-type ship is accounted for from A (Admiral C.F. Hughes) to Z (United States) including who or what she was named for, and all the other names she became known under, cross-referenced and comprehensively listed in the indices. There are diagrams, specifications and more than 300 photos and illustrations. This is truly the last word on the P-type ships, and the most complete. It is also a reader-friendly book, avoiding codes and abbreviations and setting forth the information in clear language.

The Troopships and Passenger Liners From A (Admiral C.F. Hughes) to Z (United States

The complete history of all tugboats built by the U.S. Government through the end of World War II.

The Tugboats From A(A.G. Wells) to Z(USS Zuni)

The complete history of the America's Cup races from the beginning in 1851 to the most recent in San Francisco in 2013. Special emphasis is placed on the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, berthed at Fisherman's Wharf, and her central viewing location for the America's Cup regatta of 2013.

America's Cup From the Fifty-yard Line

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

All the troopships to ever fly the American flag, from the Spanish American War through the war in Vietnam.

All American Troopships

Product Description 
The life story of the first black man to captain a Liberty Ship during and after World War II. 
 About the Author 
Captain Jaffee has written seventeen books on the Merchant Marine, Navy and maritime academy training ships. His articles and stories have appeared in more than 100 publications. He was a technical consultant on the Atlas Warships Series and a contributor to the Virginia Military Institute Encyclopedia of Naval History. He was first officer on the SS Jeremiah O'Brien during her historic six-month return voyage to Normandy for the 50th Anniversary of D-Day in 1994.

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