Liberty ship
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liberty-ship-189-10606692
title:
Liberty ship
text:
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Although British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Mass-produced on an unprecedented scale, the Liberty ship came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. The class was developed to meet British orders for transports to replace ships that had been lost. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Liberty shi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
US cargo ship class of WWII
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship
date created:
2003-03-18T18:02:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T06:45:01Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/SS_John_W_Brown.jpg","width":794,"height":471}
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13
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