Posted by Scott in SF on October 17, 2011 at 20:11:32 from (75.61.109.152):
In Reply to: OT: Welding posted by oldtanker on October 17, 2011 at 10:10:28:
Some of the Liberty ships broke up. The have a restored one docked at Fishermans Wharf, the Jeremiah O Brien. The last surviving one in original condition. It is a museum now but it still works, it went to France for the 50th anaversery of D day and it takes river crusies to Sacramento a few times a year, it is well well worth the price of admission. In one of the holds there is a display about where and how her sister ships were lost during the war. It indicates the breakups were due to a combination of new welding technology, inexperienced workers (Rosie not only rivited, she welded)and brittle steel that could not take the cold of artic waters. The O Brien has all sorts of reinforcements welded on her. California also has 2 Victory ships open to the public. The USS Red Oak Victory in Richmond and the Lane Victory in San Padero. The Lane Victory also takes people on crusies, the Red Oak Victory not yet, but they are working on it. It just got back from dry dock where it got a new paint job. The Victory ships, a much newer design were real tough. One was a US Navy research ship, the USS Victory. While in international waters it was deliberatley and intentionally attacked by war planes and war ships from Israel. Hit with napalm, strafed, torpedoed, shot with deck guns ect, they lost a lot of their crew but not the ship. Her Captian recieved a Congressional Medal of Honor for his conduct that day.
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