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The day they were built,
they were expendable. The Navy wanted only one voyage out of her to call her
a success. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called her and all her kind
''dreadful looking objects.'' The press delighted in calling them all the
''American ugly ducklings.''
They were the Liberty ships. Ask any of the 30,000 Mainers who built or
sailed in them from 1942 to 1945 if they were ugly or awkward or anything
less than Mainers could make them, and the answer is always a resounding
''No.'' Liberty ships were the workhorses of World War II, the largest class
of civilian-made warships ever built, simple square-hulled vessels welded and
hammered by the hundreds.
They carried cargoes of grain and mail, ore and ammo, trucks and troops in
the fabled horizon-filling convoys that crossed the Atlantic to the Allies,
part of Roosevelt's famous ''bridge of ships'' from the New World to the Old.
Length Overall 28 inches.
2 Sheet Plan
1/192 SCALE
TPSBL-4015
PRICE: $ 22.50
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