S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien Steam From Drydock to San Francisco
Steaming the World War II and D-Day Normandy Invasion veteran, Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, from the Mare Island drydock at the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, in Vallejo, California.
We arrived the night before and spent the night on the ship, listening to the steam coursing through the ships' veins. The next morning they began flooding the drydock at 0700 hours. Once the drydock was fully flooded, and the cason towed away, the main engine was warmed through and we got under way en route to her berth at Pier 45 in San Francisco, California.
A VERY big thank you to volunteers Devin Montalbano and Seth Adams for making this amazing opportunity available to us.
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SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a Liberty ship built during World War II and named for American Revolutionary War ship captain Jeremiah O'Brien. Now based in San Francisco, she is a rare survivor of the 6,939-ship armada that stormed Normandy on D-Day, 1944. Jeremiah O'Brien, SS John W. Brown, and SS Hellas Liberty are the only currently operational Liberty ships of the 2,710 built.
The SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a class EC2-S-CI ship, built in just 56 days at the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in South Portland, Maine and launched on 19 June 1943. Deployed in the European Theater of Operations, she made four round-trip convoy crossings of the Atlantic and was part of the Operation Neptune invasion fleet armada on D-Day. Following this she was sent to the Pacific Theater of Operations and saw 16 months of service in both the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean calling at ports in Chile, Peru, New Guinea, the Philippines, India, China, and Australia.
The end of the war caused most of the Liberty ships to be removed from service in 1946 and many were subsequently sold to foreign and domestic buyers. Others were retained by the U.S. Maritime Commission for potential reactivation in the event of future military conflicts. Jeremiah O'Brien was mothballed and remained in the National Defense Reserve Fleet in Suisun Bay for 33 years.
In the 1970s, however, the idea of preserving an unaltered Liberty Ship began to be developed and, under the sponsorship of Rear Admiral Thomas J. Patterson, USMS (then the Western Regional Director of the U.S. Maritime Administration), the ship was put aside for preservation instead of being sold for scrap. In a 1994 interview printed by the Vintage Preservation magazine Old Glory, Patterson claimed the ship was steamed to her anchorage in the mothball fleet (unlike the many that were secured as unserviceable and towed into storage), and frequently placed at the back of the list for disposal which undoubtedly contributed to her survival.
In 1994 the Jeremiah O'Brien steamed through the Golden Gate bound for France. She went down the West Coast, through the Panama Canal, and crossed the Atlantic for the first time since World War II. Stopping first in England she continued on to Normandy, where Jeremiah O'Brien and her crew (a volunteer crew of veteran World War II-era sailors and a few cadets from the California Maritime Academy) participated in the 50th Anniversary of Operation Overlord, the allied invasion of Western Europe. She was the only large ship from the original Normandy flotilla to return for the event.
Docked today at Pier 45, she makes several passenger-carrying daylight cruises each year in the San Francisco Bay Area, and occasional voyages to more distant ports such as Seattle and San Diego. Footage of the ship's engines was used in the 1997 film Titanic to depict the ill-fated ship's own engines. The ship is completely restored and most areas are open to the public, including the engine room, bridge, and cargo holds. Modernization has been kept to a minimum and mostly involves systems related to safety, communications, and navigation.
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Fourth of July 2019 Aboard the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien in San Francisco
4th of July 2019 from the stern of the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien near Pier 39 in San Francisco.
This video takes you on a mini-tour of this famous WWII-era Liberty class ship before turning to the annual San Francisco 4th of July fireworks show. Foggier this year than in 2018, but the fog added a cool airburst effect to the fireworks.
The music selection, of course, is Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever (public domain).
SS Jeremiah O'Brien - Engine Room - Pier 45, Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California
SS Jeremiah O'Brien
Pier 45, Fisherman's Wharf,
San Francisco, California
Tour of SS Jeremiah O'Brien
Walking around the deck and through the companionways of the Jeremiah O'Brien, San Francisco
SS Jeremiah O’Brien Liberty Ship Cruise Fleet Week San Francisco
This is my view of the whistle blowing as we pass under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco before cruising through the Bay Area on the ships 75th anniversary. She is the only liberty ship who survived the participation of the storming of Normandy in 1944. She still runs and floats. The next two clips are of her massive triple expansion steam engine (the same type as the titanic) She is 1 of 6 liberty ships that is still around. The last video will be of the flyovers done by the Blue Angels, The Patriots, and a privately owned Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star.
Kansas City by Wall of Blues on SS Jeremiah O'Brien, San Francisco, CA
Mojo Joe Flambo lays down the classic Kansas City with Wall of Blues on the SS Jeremiah O'Brien.
Miss Jerry Restoration S S Jeremiah O'Brien San Francisco
PostcardsFromSF -- San Francisco's French connection is celebrated on board the SS Jeremiah O'Brien with restoration work and artistic contributions from French artist Emmanuel Alteirac
Liberty Ship USS Jeremiah O'Brien San Francisco Bay. May 20, 2017.
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World War 2 Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien
Anchored at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco sits the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, one of two remaining Liberty class ships from World War 2!
This ship was off the coast of Normandy supplying troops on the beaches during D-Day, and now it's a floating museum.
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Jeremiah O'Brien
This video is about saving the Liberty ship Jeremiah O'Brien, a veteran of the D-Day landings in Normandy
SF Fleet Week 2010 - on the Jeremiah O'Brien 1 of 2
Long video of a wonderful day on San Francisco Bay
Prop out of water USS Jeremiah O'brien liberty ship underway
Fascinating close up of one of the last WW 2 liberty ship USS Jeremiah O'Briena rare ship that participated on D-day World war two, underway in San Francisco bay, with Propellor half way out of water.
S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien In Drydock 4k
The steam powered liberty ship S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien in drydock at the Mare Island Shipyard, near Vallejo, California.
A tour of the exterior of the ship in drydock, tour of the steering engine room, and main engine room.
Stay tuned for the video of the voyage from drydock to San Francisco!
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SS Jeremiah O'Brien - Farewell to the USS Iowa
Sail from Pier 39 to the Port of Richmond to say farewell to the USS Iowa. Filmed with a GoPro HD Hero2. Sped up 20x.
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Operating Triple Expansion Steam Engine - Liberty Ship Jeremiah O'Brien
The video depicts a triple expansion steam engine in operation on the Liberty ship Jeremiah O'Brien in San Francisco. The scenes have been taken during March 2019.
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ships built in the United States during World War II in large numbers. The Ships were propelled with a 140-ton vertical triple expansion compound steam engine. The engine's design was obsolete, but the engines were easy to build in high numbers by the many shipyards engaged in the construction of the Liberty ships. The engines were rugged, simple and easy to maintain. The engines are 21 feet (6.4 m) long and 19 feet (5.8 m) tall. It operated at 76 rpm and could propel a Liberty ship at about 11 knots.
The Liberty ship Jeremiah O'Brien is one of a few ships still existing still in operating conditions. It is based in San Francisco.