SS Jeremiah O'Brien (San Francisco, California)

USA / California / San Francisco / San Francisco, California / Pier 45
 museum, Second World War 1939-1945, ship, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, watercraft, museum ship, U.S. National Historic Landmark
(In the current outdated aerial photo, the vessel is not visible here. Instead, it is berthed at Pier 35, where it was temporarily docked due to a fire on Pier 45. It has since returned to its normal position.)

SS Jeremiah O'Brien, also known as Jeremiah O'Brien (Liberty ship), is a Liberty ship built during World War II and named for American Revolutionary War ship captain Jeremiah O'Brien (1744–1818). Now based in San Francisco, the O'Brien is a rare survivor of the 6,939-ship armada that stormed Normandy on D-Day, 1944, and one of only two currently operational WWII Liberty ships afloat of the 2,751 built during the war (the other being the SS John W. Brown based in Baltimore).

In 1994 the O'Brien, in its eighth voyage, (the previous seven were during WWII) steamed through the Golden Gate, down the west coast, through the Panama Canal, and across the Atlantic to England and France, where the O'Brien and its crew (a volunteer crew of veteran WWII-era sailors and a few cadets from the California Maritime Academy) participated in the 50th Anniversary of Operation Overlord, the allied invasion of Normandy that turned the tide of WWII in Europe... the only large ship from the original Normandy flotilla to return for the 50th anniversary celebration.

The SS Jeremiah O'Brien was designated a National Historic Landmark, and is docked at Pier 45 at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California. It also hosts the amateur radio station K6JOB.


www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Jeremiah_O'Brien
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Coordinates:   37°48'39"N   122°25'4"W

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  • In 1943, most of the Liberty yards began producing Victory ships, a larger and faster freighter, with an eye to producing vessels that would retain commercial value after the war. One of these, the SS Lane Victory Ship, moored in San Pedro, CA, has been restored. There are at least four other ships in the process of restoration.
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