After the war, a number of the Liberty Ships became merchant vessels and others were stored for future. Most were scrapped.
In the early 2000s, two restored and functioning Liberty Ships remained: the SS Jeremiah O'Brien on the West Coast and the SS John W. Brown, moored in Baltimore, which visited Wilmington in 1996.
As part of the North Carolina artificial reef program, the Liberty Ship SS Theodore Parker was sunk in 50 feet of water just off Fort Macon near Morehead City and became a popular site for scuba divers and fishermen.
A Ship That Did a Lot for Our War Effort. --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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