Five Ocean Class Cargo Ships being launched

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Five Ocean Class Cargo Ships being launched
Here we see the Ocean class cargo ships Ocean Wayfarer, Ocean Stranger, Ocean Traveller, Ocean Seaman, and Ocean Gallant being launched at the Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Yard at South Portland, Maine on 16 August 1942. On the same day Todd launched a Liberty ship and Bath two destroyers at nearby yards, making it the largest mass launch in the war shipbuilding programme to that date. The Ocean class ships were built for Britain, and their design was used as the basis for the Liberty ships.
The Ocean Class of the Second World War, Malcolm Cooper. A detailed history of the first mass produced class of merchant ships of the Second World War, the British designed but American built Ocean class ships which played a part in the most dangerous part of the Battle of the Atlantic and were the inspiration for the more famous Liberty ships. Covers their design, construction, wartime service and unexpectedly long peacetime careers. (Read Full Review)
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How to cite this article: Rickard, J (9 February 2025), Five Ocean Class Cargo Ships being launched , https://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_ocean_class_launch.html

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