| Entry Text: | JAFFEE, Walter W. The Last Liberty: The Biography of the s.s. Jeremiah O'Brien.[x], v, 490p., bibliog., illus., index. Palo Alto, Calif.: Glencannon, 1993. ISBN: 0963758608.
Built between May and June 1943 in Portland, she carried her first Atlantic cargo in July. Almost 12 months of Atlantic convoys was followed by D-Day. In October she returned to New York and began carrying cargo into the Pacific and Indian Oceans. She was laid up in the Reserve Fleet in 1946 and rescued later for preservation. |
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