S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien

Berthed in San Francisco harbour, the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien is one of the last surviving Liberty Ships, ships built in huge numbers to carry cargo across the Atlantic during WWII. This one saw service on the D-Day landings, and still regularly steams round the San Francisco Bay with passengers on board.

	Welcome to the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien
	I love all the mechanical stuff in the engine room.
	This one is labelled "ahead" and "astern", I suspect it shows engine revolutions?
	A large number of guages that must do something really useful...
	I love the emergency exit ladder, but don't fancy scrambling up it in a hurry.
	Little oil cans hang everywhere ready to keep all the moving parts lubricated.
	Rusty valves.
	The ships telegraph, the primary means of relaying instructions from the bridge to the engine room.
	The electrical switch board.
	A generator, and the electrical switch board.
	Oily moving mechanical-ish stuff.
	More oily moving mechanical-ish stuff.
	A pressure relief valve on one of the main cylinders - just like on my pressure cooker only bigger.
	Don't expect to make long distance calls on this.
	The main aft gun. Although she was a civilian ship operated by a steamboat company and crewed by merchant seamen, the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien was armed to defend herself and carried a small crew of Navy gunners.
	The USS Pampanito, a WWII submarine berthed on the same jetty and also open to visitors. The San Francisco skyline is rather spectacular too.
	Take aim....
	Cranes for lifting cargo with Alcatraz in the distance.
	Alcatraz.
	Pier 39, the tourist heart of the seafront.
	Time for an ice-cream after all that hard sightseeing.
	Pier 39 again.
	The S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien seen through the old ferry arch.