3-LARGE SIZE US NAVY PATCHES SS JEREMIAH O\'BRAIN NEW ALL 3 ARE DIFFERENT for Sale

3-LARGE SIZE US NAVY PATCHES SS JEREMIAH O\'BRAIN NEW ALL 3 ARE DIFFERENT For Sale

$3-LARGE SIZE US NAVY PATCHES SS JEREMIAH O\'BRAIN NEW ALL 3 ARE DIFFERENT$
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3-LARGE SIZE US NAVY PATCHES SS JEREMIAH O\'BRAIN NEW ALL 3 ARE DIFFERENT :
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WE SHIP WORLDWIDE 14 EURO PLEASE FOLLOW OUR E BAY STORE SEE ALL PICS WE COMBINE SHIPPING ( no shipping fee for the second item when you buy two or more like items ) SALE SEE OUR STORE PLEASE READ WHOLE ADD VERY REAL THING History World War II The SS Jeremiah O\'Brien is a classEC2-S-CI ship, built in just 56 days at the New England ShipbuildingCorporation in South Portland, Maine and launched on 19 June 1943.[7] Deployedin the European Theater of Operations, she made four round-trip convoycrossings of the Atlantic and was part of the Operation Neptune invasion fleetarmada on D-Day. Following this she was sent to the Pacific Theater ofOperations and saw 16 months of service in both the South Pacific and theIndian Ocean calling at ports in Chile, Peru, New Guinea, the Philippines,India, China, and Australia. Postwar The end of the war caused most of theLiberty ships to be removed from service in 1946 and many were subsequentlysold to foreign and domestic buyers. Others were retained by the U.S. MaritimeCommission for potential reactivation in the event of future militaryconflicts. Jeremiah O\'Brien was mothballed and remained in the National DefenseReserve Fleet in Suisun Bay for 33 years.[citation needed] Restoration In the 1970s, however, the idea ofpreserving an unaltered Liberty Ship began to be developed and, under thesponsorship of Rear Admiral Thomas J. Patterson, USMS (then the WesternRegional Director of the U.S. Maritime Administration), the ship was put asidefor preservation instead of being sold for scrap. In a 1994 interview printedby the Vintage Preservation magazine Old Glory, Patterson claimed the ship wassteamed to her anchorage in the mothball fleet (unlike the many that weresecured as unserviceable and towed into storage), and frequently placed at theback of the list for disposal which undoubtedly contributed to hersurvival.[citation needed] An all-volunteer group, the NationalLiberty Ship Memorial (NLSM), acquired Jeremiah O\'Brien in 1979 forrestoration. At that time, she was virtually the last Liberty at the anchorage.Amazingly, those who volunteered to resurrect the mothballed ship (led byCaptain Edward MacMichael, NLSM Executive Director, and Master) were able toget the antiquated steam plant operating while she remained in Suisun Bay.After more than three decades in mothballs, Jeremiah O\'Brien\'s boilers werelit. The ship left the mothball fleet on 21 May 1980 bound for San FranciscoBay, drydocking, and thousands of hours of restoration work. She was the onlyLiberty Ship to leave the mothball fleet under her own power.[8] The Jeremiah O\'Brien then moved toFort Mason on the San Francisco waterfront just to the west of Fisherman\'sWharf to become a museum ship dedicated to the men and women who built andsailed with the United States Merchant Marine in World War II. She was named aNational Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society ofMechanical Engineers in 1984 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.[9]Licensed to carry tours around San Francisco Bay, it was suggested[who?] thatthe ship be restored to oceangoing specification. After efforts in securingsponsorship, this was accomplished in time for the 50th \"D-Day\"Anniversary Celebrations in 1994.[citation needed] 50th Anniversary of D-Day In 1994 the Jeremiah O\'Brien steamedthrough the Golden Gate bound for France. She went down the West Coast, throughthe Panama Canal, and crossed the Atlantic for the first time since World WarII. Stopping first in England she continued on to Normandy, where JeremiahO\'Brien and her crew (a volunteer crew of veteran World War II-era sailors anda few cadets from the California Maritime Academy) participated in the 50thAnniversary of Operation Overlord, the allied invasion of Western Europe. Shewas the only large ship from the original Normandy flotilla to return for theevent.[citation needed] Today Docked today at Pier 45, she makesseveral passenger-carrying daylight cruises each year in the San Francisco BayArea, and occasional voyages to more distant ports such as Seattle and SanDiego.[citation needed] Footage of the ship\'s engines wasused in the 1997 film Titanic to depict the ill-fated ship\'s own engines.[10]The engine is very similar to the engines on board the RMS Titanic, both weretriple expansion marine steam engines, albeit the Titanic\'s engines were fourcylinders as opposed to three. The ship is completely restored and most areasare open to the public, including the engine room, bridge, and cargo holds.Modernization has been kept to a minimum and mostly involves systems related tosafety, communications, and navigation.