Bibliography


Honoring The Men And Women Who Built the "Liberty" Ships

 











Bibliography


BOOKS
Jones, Herbert G, Portland Ships Are Good Ships. Portland, ME:  Machigonne Press, 1945.
INTERNET WEB SITES
Portland Harbor Museum
http://www.portlandharbormuseum.org/
Official Site, S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien
http://www.ssjeremiahobrien.com/
Marty Wefald's S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien Site http://www.geocities.com/jeremiahobrien/obrien.html
S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, World War II Liberty Ship, By Rob Mackie.
http://warship.simplenet.com/libgalle.htm
Excellent pictures of present-day S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien

Project Liberty Ship, by Peter Thompson
http://www.liberty-ship.com/2001/index.html
Liberty Ships, also by Peter Thompson
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~pt/liberty/liberty1.html
How Liberty Ships Are Built, also by Peter Thompson
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~pt/liberty/photos/assembly.html

Liberty Ship Nomenclature
http://www.armed-guard.com/ag15.html
Complete list of every Liberty built
WWII Tech Pubs Feature, "Liberty" Cargo Ship, by James Davies
http://www.wwiitechpubs.com/dock/nv-usa/nv-usa-ss-liberty-ship/nv-usa-ss-liberty-ship-ftr.html
VERY extensive info on Liberties ranging from the ships to the yards which built them.
GOOGLE Search for "South Portland Shipyards"
http://www.google.com/search?q=shipyard+%22South+Portland%22&hl=en
Liberty Ship Crew
http://www.usmm.org/liberty_crew.html

Who did what on the Liberties
The Atlantic Bridge of Steel, by Scott Messmore
http://liberty-ship.visit-san-francisco.com/
S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien tours and information
"We did it before and we can do it again!"
http://www.worldcity.com/news/libertyship.html
Some pictures, basic info on Liberties

Casco Bay Online: A bibliography of Casco Bay
http://www.cascobay.com/history/biblio.htm

Local Maritime Links
Water front home page (Port of Portland)
Portland Landmarks
Maine History Day
Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse
Maritime Resources
Maritime History Publications Home Page
Lighthouses in Maine
Links: Lighthouses and Lightships
Maritime Organizations
Portland Marine Society
Africa Sails (Portland, ME)
Haze Gray Shipbuilding Pages: The Shipbuilding Industry of Yesterday & Today
http://www.hazegray.org/shipbuilding/
Many links to many shipyards, US and worldwide, especially strong on WW2.  The web page at http://www.hazegray.org/shipbuilding/tbi-sps.htm includes information on the  Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp., 1940-1942, South Portland Shipbuilding Corp., 1941-1943 and New England Shipbuilding Corp., 1943-1945.

Jeremy D'Entremont.  
New England Lighthouses: A Virtual Guide


Revised: 15 Aug 2002 .