To address the sudden need for supplies overseas during World War II, the United States government launched an emergency shipbuilding program in 1941 that resulted in the construction of 2,700 cargo ships. Dubbed Liberty ships, these vessels were designed as economically and quickly built cargo steamers that formed the backbone of a massive sealift of troops, arms, materiel and ordnance to every theater of the war. Liberty ships like the Brown

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