Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: apple!well.sf.ca.us!well!jimkent@uunet.UU.NET (Jim Kent) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Liberty Ships Message-ID: <1990Jul9.023911.10067@cbnews.att.com> Date: 9 Jul 90 02:39:11 GMT References: <1990Jul8.053547.8339@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 16 Approved: military@att.att.com From: apple!well.sf.ca.us!well!jimkent@uunet.UU.NET (Jim Kent) doug@daswk2.llnl.gov (Douglas S. Miller) writes: :I am getting married in May and we plan to have the ceremony and the :reception on the SS Jeremiah O'Brian, reportedly the sole surviving :Liberty Ship from WWII that is still in its original operating condition. :Can anyone out there give me a brief history of these ships or :references towards same? I would think that the best source of that info would be on the Jeremiah itself, but I haven't been on board lately. Jim