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LC-Lot-3452-5: Merchant Ships: Liberty

<p style="margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;">LC-Lot-3452-5:&nbsp; Merchant Ships:&nbsp; Liberty.&nbsp;&nbsp; Biography of a Liberty Ship.&nbsp; Approximately 105 days after her keel is laid SS Patrick Henry is off on her maiden voyage to carry the war to the Axis. <span class="fbphotocaptiontext">On 27 September 1941, SS Patrick Henry, the first U.S. Liberty ship, was launched at Baltimore, Maryland. Numerous other vessels were launched on that day, known as &quot;Liberty Fleet Day.&quot; Surviving World War II, Patrick Henry was scrapped in 1960. </span>&nbsp;U.S. Office of Emergency Management Photograph.&nbsp; Courtesy of the Library of Congress.&nbsp; (2015/05/06).&nbsp;</span></p>
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Caption: Merchant Ships: Liberty. Biography of a Liberty Ship. Approximately 105 days after her keel is laid SS Patrick Henry is off on her maiden voyage to carry the war to the Axis. On 27 September 1941, SS Patrick Henry, the first U.S. Liberty ship, was launched at Baltimore, Maryland. Numerous other vessels were launched on that day, known as "Liberty Fleet Day." Surviving World War II, Patrick Henry was scrapped in 1960. U.S. Office of Emergency Management Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2015/05/06).
Accession #: LC-Lot-3452-5
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