I took these photos while visiting Pier 45 in 2017. Was actually in town for business and decided to take some time off and walk around the wharf through the city. Was pleasantly surprised to see this Liberty Ship and Sub docked!!! Later the SS Jeremiah went out to sea but had missed it’s departure to take more photos.
The Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien
The SS Jeremiah O’Brien is one of two remaining fully functional Liberty ships of the 2,710 built and launched during World War II. The O’Brien has the distinction of being the last unaltered Liberty ship and remains historically accurate. Moored at Pier 45, Fisherman’s Wharf, she is a premier San Francisco attraction.
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Though British in concept,[4] the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Mass-produced on an unprecedented scale, the Liberty ship came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output.[5]
The class was developed to meet British orders for transports to replace ships that had been lost. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945 (an average of three ships every two days),[6] easily the largest number of ships ever produced to a single design.
USS Pampanito (SS-383/AGSS-383), a Balao-class submarine
USS Pampanito (SS-383/AGSS-383), a Balao-class submarine, was a United States Navy ship, the third one named for the pompano fish. She completed six war patrols from 1944 to 1945 and served as a United States Naval Reserve training ship from 1960 to 1971. She is now a National Historic Landmark, preserved as a memorial and museum ship in the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association located at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, California.
Pampanito was turned into a memorial and museum at San Francisco on 21 November 1975,[2] transferred to the Maritime Park Association (formerly the National Maritime Museum Association) on 20 May 1976, and opened to the public on 15 March 1982.[11]
In 1986, Pampanito was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared to be a National Historic Landmark.[8][7][12] She is now owned and operated by the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association and is moored at Pier 45 in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf area, where she is open for visiting.
