America's beaches were littered

with ships and bodies
http://www.usmm.org/ww2.html

http://www.rbogash.com/Plant 2/Plant2.html
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/industrialmobilization/p/libertyships.htm

http://pointers.audiovideoweb.com/stcram/nj20real2801/30-J.rm/play

 

So it was the crappy construction that was to blame?

 

Heh. If his brains were dynamite they wouldn't blow his fucking hat off.

 

Give 'em a break. They only spent 2 weeks building the things. My
mother worked in a Liberty ship plant and she wasn't the most
mechanically adept person on the planet, but when patriotism calls...

 

There are two operational *Liberty* ships still sailing today. One is
the S.S Jeremiah O*Brien in San Francisco, CA. The O*Brien*s engine was
used by James Cameron in his *97 film as a stand-in for Titanic*s
reciprocating steam engine. The other surviving *Liberty* ship is the
S.S. John W. Brown which has its home port in Baltimore, MD. Both ships
are open to the public, and also take visitors on cruises a couple times
a year.

Actually I heard there is a 3rd one that is a
musuem off the coast of Greece.

I did Google to try to see how many of
Englands ww2 ships still sailing but
Rednecks & Google non compatible
sometimes.J/K

It would be apples & oranges anyway
as Englands fleet wasnt built in a hurry.

only 7 ships broke in half--built on a
Monday maybe