Hellas Liberty in the port of Piraeus (new design) / Hellas Liberty im Hafen von Piräus

Hellas Liberty in the port of Piraeus (new design) / Hellas Liberty im Hafen von Piräus

Hellas Liberty

Die Arthur M. Huddle wurde 2008 erworben, um im Schiffsmuseum Trokadero Marina in Piräus als Exponat zu dienen. Zuvor wurde das Schiff seit 1988 in Baltimore als Ersatzteilspender verwendet. Das Schiff wurde in Hellas Liberty umbenannt und wird seit 2009 restauriert. Es soll an die 98 Liberty-Schiffe erinnern, die nach 1945 den Grundstock der griechischen Handelsflotte bildeten.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty-Frachter

Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. Though British in conception, they were adapted by the U.S. as they were cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. Based on vessels ordered by Britain to replace ships torpedoed by German U-boats, they were purchased for the U.S. fleet and for lend-lease provision to Britain. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,751 Libertys between 1941 and 1945, easily the largest number of ships produced to a single design.

The production of these vessels mirrored, on a much larger scale, the manufacture of the Hog Islander ship and similar standardized types during World War I. The immense effort to build Liberty ships, the sheer number of ships built, and the fact that some of the ships survived far longer than the original design life of five years, make them the subject of much study.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship

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