Liberty Fleet Day was first observed on 27 September 1941, the day that 14 merchant ships were launched in shipyards across the United States under the...

September 1941 was dubbed Liberty Fleet Day to try to assuage public opinion, since the first 14 "Emergency" vessels were launched that day. The first of these...

Valletta, Malta, by units of the Sixth Fleet and given temporary repairs. After the repairs were completed, Liberty returned to the United States on 27 July...

commercial ships, including USS George Clymer, which took part in Liberty Fleet Day on 27 September 1941. In the 1950s, Ingalls started bidding on Navy...

of Liberty immediately asked Vice Admiral William I. Martin at the United States Sixth Fleet headquarters to send a destroyer to accompany Liberty and...

counterparts. On Liberty Fleet Day, September 27, 1941, then U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was present at the launching of the first Liberty ship SS Patrick...

March 1941, by Boston Navy Yard and launched on 27 September 1941 Liberty Fleet Day; sponsored by Miss Elizabeth H. Royal, granddaughter of Admiral Knight...

survivor of the 6,939-ship 6 June 1944 D-Day armada off the coast of Normandy, France. Of the 2,710 Liberty ships that were built, only the Jeremiah O'Brien...

Oregon Shipbuilding was the Star of Oregon, which was launched on Liberty Fleet Day, September 27, 1941. The rapid expansion of Portland area shipyards...

ships remain in the fleet. The fleet was used for surplus grain storage. Liberty ships laid up in the James River Reserve Fleet were used by the Commodity...

Germans when crossing the North Atlantic Ocean. On 27 September 1941—Liberty Fleet Day—Boston launched two destroyers, USS Cowie and the USS Knight. Even...

1786. Liberty ships initially had a poor public image and to try to assuage public opinion, 27 September 1941, was designated Liberty Fleet Day, and the...

prison walls called the "Liberty of the Fleet" or the "Rules of the Fleet". From 1613 on, there were also many clandestine Fleet Marriages. The boundary...

Fairfield hosted Liberty Fleet Day, with the launching of their first Liberty Ship, SS Patrick Henry. She was the first of an eventual 384 Liberty ships built...

Admiral Thomas Jefferson Cowie. Cowie was launched on 27 September 1941 Liberty Fleet Day at the Boston Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. C. R. Robinson, daughter...

of these early-built ships joined the ship launching parade of the Liberty Fleet Day on 27 September 1941. Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny, NJ: 5 Joseph Lykes...

118°12′58″W / 33.768916°N 118.215992°W / 33.768916; -118.215992). On Liberty Fleet Day, September 27, 1941, the yard launched SS Alcoa Polaris, a C1-B type...

27 September 1941, it contributed one of the 14 ships launched on Liberty Fleet Day: SS Surprise. Sun Shipbuilding originally had a contract to build...

originally built by the company were also converted to military use. On Liberty Fleet Day — September 27, 1941 — the yard launched the SS Adabelle Lykes. After...

attending the seminar could foresee the day, rapidly approaching, when the last ship of that great fleet of over 2700 Liberty Ships would face the breaker's torch...

Phrygian cap (/ˈfrɪdʒ(iː)ən/ FRIJ-(ee)-ən), also known as Thracian cap and liberty cap, is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity...

Valletta, Malta, by units of the Sixth Fleet and was given temporary repairs. After the repairs were completed, Liberty returned to the United States on 27...

Singapore Airlines operates a predominantly widebody fleet, until the second re-introduction of the Boeing 737 in March 2021 following the merger with...

popular liberty port for navy personnel. In September 1945, the U.S. Marine Corps' Fifth Division landed at Sasebo, and in June 1946, U.S. Fleet Activities...

Liberty's crew kept her afloat. At 1719 that same day, Davis (DD-937) and Massey (DD-778) received verbal orders to proceed at once to assist Liberty...

Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA: EWR, ICAO: KEWR, FAA LID: EWR) is a major international airport serving the New York metropolitan area. The...

ships and Liberty ships, many of which had been built at the nearby former North Carolina Shipbuilding Company Shipyard. Some ships in the fleet were reactivated...

Independence Day: Resurgence – Manchester United 20th Century Fox UK on YouTube Stimson, Eric (June 20, 2016). "Gundam Unicorn Replaces the Statue of Liberty on...

On November 3, 2006, Carnival Liberty departed Rome, Italy, to Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades). During the 16-day transatlantic voyage, over 700 people...

penetrated Russian air defenses and struck the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in occupied Sevastopol, Crimea. The strike was part of the war resulting...