The Southeastern Shipbuilding yard was capable of building six Liberty ships at a time.
Two Savannah vessels remain: the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, homeported in San Francisco and the SS John W. Brown in Baltimore.
The first vessel built in Savannah was the SS James Oglethorpe on Nov. 20, 1942.
On March 11, 1943, it sailed from new York Harbor in a 40-ship convoy designated Halifax 229. Five days out, eight German U-boats attacked and the Oglethorpe was hit by a torpedo and sank the next day.
During the war, some 200 Liberty ships were sunk.
Some of the Forgotten Ships That Won a War. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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