The Liberty Ship Engine

Since the inception of Project Liberty Ship's plan to bring the JOHN W. BROWN to Baltimore in 1988, the goal was to create a living, steaming museum and memorial. Static displays have their place, and there are many of them all around the country. Some of the World War II memorial ships, like battleships, for example, are far too complicated and vastly too expensive to be operated by small museums staffed mostly with volunteers. But with a merchant ship, with its relatively simple power plant, reactivation is a distinct possibility. It had, in fact, already been done on the West Coast by the volunteers on the Liberty ship JEREMIAH O'BRIEN.