Naval History

The Biography of the S.S. ‘Jeremiah O’Brien’, illustrations from b&w photographs, appendices giving plans of Liberty ships, the specification of the ‘Jeremiah O’Brien’ and the crews on its voyages, bibliography & index, xvi & 490 pp, blue cloth in d/w, small creases to top edge of d/w, otherwise in very good condition, Glencannon Press (Palo Alto, California) 1993

23.4 x 14.9 cm, 1040g, ISBN 0 96375 860 8

The only remaining unaltered Liberty ship of the 2,710 built during World War Two, and the only active survivor of the 1944 Normandy landings.  Now on display as a museum ship in San Francisco Harbour. 

See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.