Cyclops Online Home Gallery Professional GM7FIE What's New Contact Me
Ian's Latest Blip
Ian Stevenson's Facebook profile Ian Stevenson's Twitter View Ian Stevenson's profile on LinkedIn

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.

2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0021.jpg Welcome to the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0000.jpg I love all the mechanical stuff in the engine room.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0001.jpg This one is labelled "ahead" and "astern", I suspect it shows engine revolutions?
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0002.jpg A large number of guages that must do something really useful...
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0003.jpg I love the emergency exit ladder, but don't fancy scrambling up it in a hurry.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0005.jpg Little oil cans hang everywhere ready to keep all the moving parts lubricated.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0007.jpg Rusty valves.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0009.jpg The ships telegraph, the primary means of relaying instructions from the bridge to the engine room.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0010.jpg The electrical switch board.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0011.jpg A generator, and the electrical switch board.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0012.jpg Oily moving mechanical-ish stuff.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0013.jpg More oily moving mechanical-ish stuff.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0014.jpg A pressure relief valve on one of the main cylinders - just like on my pressure cooker only bigger.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0015.jpg Don't expect to make long distance calls on this.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0016.jpg 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.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0017.jpg The USS Pampanito, a WWII submarine berthed on the same jetty and also open to visitors. The San Francisco skyline is rather spectacular too.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0018.jpg Take aim....
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0019.jpg Cranes for lifting cargo with Alcatraz in the distance.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0020.jpg Alcatraz.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0022.jpg Pier 39, the tourist heart of the seafront.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0023.jpg Time for an ice-cream after all that hard sightseeing.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0024.jpg Pier 39 again.
2009-07-26_Liberty_Ship_0025.jpg The S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien seen through the old ferry arch.
©2000-2022 Ian Stevenson, all rights reserved