02205cam a2200277 a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700800410003401000170007502000150009204000270010704200080013404300120014205000200015408200220017410000200019624500630021626000530027930000290033236500150036150400630037650513160043965000430175565000540179885600750185212371725BD-DhUL20150113191415.0010406s2001    mdua     b    001 0 eng    a  2001089745  a1557505357  aDLCcDLCdDLCdBD-DhUL  apcc  an-us---00aD773b.E47 200100a623.8245221bELL1 aElphick, Peter.10aLiberty :bthe ships that won the war /cby Peter Elphick.  aAnnapolis, Md. :bNaval Institute Press,cc2001.  a512 p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aUS$b44.55  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 490-497)and index.8 aMachine generated contents note: PART I: IN THE BEGINNING -- 1. The Parentage of the Liberty Ship -- 2. The British Shipbuilding Mission to the United States -- 3. Birth of the Liberty Ship -- 4. The Shipyards and their Workers -- 5. The Naming Game -- 6. The Wartime Liberty Crews -- 7. Close to Calamity: the Structural Failure Problem -- PART II: THE LIBERTY AT WAR -- 8. Ubiquity -- 9. A Liberty versus a German Raider -- 10. The North Atlantic -- 11. Liberty Ships and the Northern Route to Russia -- 12. Liberties and Operation 'Torch' -- 13. Liberties as Troopships and Animal Transports -- 14. Liberties in the Mediterranean -- 15. The Poison Gas Disaster at Bari -- 16. Liberties and the Allied Salvage Services -- 17. Normandy and the Campaign in Europe -- 18. 'Let Sleeping Wrecks Lie': The On-going Saga -- of the Richard Montgomery -- 19. Liberties in the Indian Ocean -- 20. Liberties in the Pacific -- 21. The Other Allied Liberties -- PART III: AFTER THE WAR -- 22. The Liberty Ship's Role in-Peacetime -- 23. Tragedy off Porthcawl: The Loss of the Samtampa -- 24. Lost without Trace -- 25. More Post-war Disasters, Trials and Tribulations -- 26. The Last Years of the Trading Liberties -- 27. Treasure Hunt -- 28. The Surviving Liberties -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Index. 0aLiberty shipszUnited StatesxHistory. 0aWorld War, 1939-1945xNaval operations, American.413Table of contentsuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001089745.html