JEREMIAH O'BRIEN

JEREMIAH O'BRIEN

Built 1943, by New England Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland, Maine, USA (Yard # 230) as JEREMIAH O'BRIEN

GRT : 7176 / DWT : 10865

Overall Length : 134.6 metres x Beam 17.3 metres.

Machinery : 1 Screw driven by a Three cylinder. Reciprocating triple expansion steam

Speed : 11.0 knots

 

Jeremiah O'Brien photographed at Spithead on the 5 June 1994 here she was participating in the Fleet Review to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the D-Day landings

Ship Details : Miramar / JEREMIAH O'BRIEN website

 

Details for the vessel from the Website for the vessel

Launched: June 19, 1943

Built By: New England Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland, Maine, USA

Class/Type: EC2-S-CI / Liberty Ship

Length: 441 feet, 6 inches

Beam: 57 feet

Draft: 27 feet, 9 inches

Gross Tonnage: 7176

Displacement 14245 / Net: 4380

Engine Three cylinder. Reciprocating triple expansion steam

•Horsepower: (at 76 rpm) 2,500

•Cylinders: 24-1/2", 37", 70"

•Stroke 48"

 

In June 1943 the Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien slid down the ways at the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in South Portland, Maine. Shortly thereafter she entered service, operated by Grace Line for the War Shipping Administration. Named for the first American to capture a British naval vessel during the Revolutionary War, the O'Brien made seven World War II voyages, ranging from England and Northern Ireland to South America, to India, to Australia. She also made eleven crossings of the English Channel carrying personnel and supplies to the Normandy beaches in support of the D-Day invasion. After the war, she was mothballed and laid up in the Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, north of San Francisco

 

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