SS Jeremiah O'Brien

	SS Jeremiah O'Brien at its former berth at Pier 45 in San Francisco
History
United States
Name	Jeremiah O'Brien
Namesake	Jeremiah O'Brien
Owner	War Shipping Administration
Operator	Grace Line, Inc.
Port of registry	Portland, Maine, United States; San Francisco, United States;
Builder	New England Shipbuilding Corporation
Yard number	230
Laid down	6 May 1943
Launched	19 June 1943
In service	3 July 1943
Out of service	7 February 1946
Identification	Call sign: KXCH; IMO number: 5171749; MMSI number: 366879000; ABS class no: 4304713;
Status	Seagoing museum ship since 1979
General characteristics
Class and type	EC2-S-C1 (Liberty ship)
Displacement	15,928 short tons (14,450 t)
Length	441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam	57 ft (17 m)
Draft	27 ft 9 in (8.46 m)
Propulsion	Two Foster Wheeler (Babcock & Wilcox-design) boilers, 235 psi (1,600 kPa); 3-cylinder reciprocating triple expansion steam engine, 2,500 horsepower (~1.9 MW) at 76 rpm; 1 shaft, 18-foot (5.5-meter) screw;
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Armament	1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber gun (stern); 1 × 3 inch (76 mm)/50 caliber gun (bow); 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns;
	SS Jeremiah O'Brien
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location	Pier 35, San Francisco, California
Coordinates	37°48′25″N 122°24′15″W
Built	1943
Architect	New York Shipbuilding Corp.
NRHP reference No.	78003405
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	7 June 1978
Designated NHL	14 January 1986

SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a Liberty ship built during World War II and named after the American Revolutionary War ship captain Jeremiah O'Brien (1744–1818).

Now based in San Francisco, she is a rare survivor of the 6,939-ship 6 June 1944 D-Day armada off the coast of Normandy, France.

Jeremiah O'Brien and the SS John W. Brown are the only currently operational Liberty ships as well as the SS Hellas Liberty (as a static museum ship) of the 2,710 individual ships built.

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