Port of Piraeus, the SS HELLAS LIBERTY ship – Greece (S.S. ΕΛΛΑΣ ΛΙΜΠΕΡΤΥ). The last Liberty Ship tour, a Liberty Ship (SS HELLAS LIBERY) from the second world war in Piraeus. Let’s go to the port of the Greek capital of Athens, the city of Piraeus (Πειραιάς) and let’s visit one of the last Liberty ships (SS HELLAS LIBERTY) that survives from the second world war. The SS Hellas Liberty ship was a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.
The SS Hellas Liberty is Liberty class ship launched in 1943 by St. John’s River Shipbuilding Company. The Liberty Ship was converted into a pipe carrier in 1944 and used in the construction of a fuel pipeline under the English Channel following the Normandy landing. After the war she was laid up. She was chartered by AT&T in 1956 and converted into a cable ship. In 1957 she was transferred to the US reserve fleet until 1964. Later she was classified as a barge and again laid up at the James River in 1983. After that many components including the rudder were removed and used as spare parts for the SS “JOHN W. BROWN”.
Though British in conception, the design of the Liberty Ship was adapted 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.
The Liberty Ship class was developed to meet British orders for transports to replace those torpedoed by German U-boats. The vessels were purchased both for the U.S. fleet and lend-lease deliveries of war materiel to Britain and the Soviet Union. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945, easily the largest number of ships produced to a single design.
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Vic I've been looking for info on this ship. I'm producing video for the SS John W Brown in Baltimore. This all looks VERY familiar.
Very cool video, rare look, really scary thinking about it at war
Thanks this video make me remember so many.
Great documentary on that ship my brothers wife's father was a captain on one of those ships he use to take equipment to russia and the uk ,he told me many stories of his travels.he was an australian ship captain living in new york traveling taking cargo across the sea for the war effort.knew him well before he passed .
Wonder tour, thanks!
Very well-preserved.
I visited the wreck of a grounded Liberty ship near the shores of the Black Sea in Costinești, Romania. Back in the 90s there were still things to see onboard. But nowdays all that is left of her is a rusty hulk. People stole everything they could to sell as scrap metal.
I am happy to see how that ship must have looked like when she wasn't a rusting wreck.
My Grandfather was a gunner on one of these ships in the North Atlantic and the Pacific in WW II. I remember from my childhood the liberty ship Longstreet was repurposed as a target ship in Cape Cod Bay. Thank you for the tour. Thank you to the Craftsmen who restored her.
Has to be a greek to preserve such a fantastic ship!!
Thank you!!!!
Is this ship in operating or museum?
So dealing with the Chinese now ???
Not smart Greece……. they well own you 😳
Nice walk around! I saw this one from a distance in 2012, glad to see it up close. The big silver boxes with 4 red circles on the sides are the boilers, sinusoidal header water tube boilers that burned oil. The red circles are where the burners went. Thanks!
Thankyou sir a fascinating video.
The ship looks like new.
What a pity more people are not interested to visit.
Perhaps offering accomodation like they do on the cap san diego in hamburg.
Thanx again.
The two large grey items are the boilers.
The red plates on them are the removable furnace doors which also carry the oil fuel delivery pipes.
The oil tanks are the ready use oil fuel day tanks
As stated below, a Triple expansion reciprocating steam engine with the crankshaft angles set at 120 degrees. There are High pressure (HP) Intermediate pressure(IP) and Low Pressure (LP) cylinders. The steam cycle for each cylinder is Admission, Cut off, Expansion, Exhaust and Compression. Steam to each cylinder is controlled by valves, these may be piston or slide valves or a combination of both. E.g. piston valves were often used in conjunction with the HP Cylinder. The valves are operated from eccentrics fitted to the crankshaft via eccentric rods. There is a forward and reverse eccentrics for each cylinder which is controlled by the position of the block in what I call the expansion link.
By the time the steam leaves the LP Cylinder it holds almost no pressure i.e. a vacuum. Air pumps extract steam from the LP Cylinder to the Condenser (shown in the video) where the steam is converted back to condensate for reuse in the boilers.
There are two Babcock and Wilcox small tube boilers. You can see the red circles of the fuel burners on the boiler fronts . Steam would be supplied to other reciprocating machinery such as electricity generators, fuel pumps, feed water and transfer pumps, water distilling plant, fire or fire and bilge pumps air supply fans to the boilers, winches, capstans and steering gear. Hope this helps.
Thank you for the tour Vic! Beautiful old boat. I had the privilege of taking a cruse on the Chesapeake Bay aboard the John W. Brown. A decade ago.
Its not the last.
My name is Frank Leeming from Derby UK. I sailed on three Liberty Ships. The first one the SS Sam Wash. Great ships.
My grandfather died of shrapnel wounds in that warehouse when the original Hellas was bombed during the evacuation.
They could build one in just 39 days. Incredible!
Best ship tour ever!
Wonderful renovation. Looks like new.
Hello and thank you from Las Vegas NV USA.
After watching this video, I thought about the status of this ship today? Thanks
Last WW2 Liberty ship in GREECE-
I was excited to see where my dad did welding on Liberty ships. I made my heart feel good. Thank you so much!
Liberty-flagged Delos Glory steam ship Lyberty class, increased to 8,000 ton, became extremely slow, was the last ship to leave Saigon after President Richard Nixon's stop fire order. We made several trips to Vietnam, some taking sugar from Brazil.
I was there. I'm Nikolas Theodoros Georgiopoulos, I now live in Itajai, SC, Brazil at the time Nikolaos Antonopoulos, was my adopted father's name, given by the great human being (however blasphemous) Evangelos Antonopoulos from Patre Greece, worked in mechanics.
I am a Christian and a devotee of the Holy Father Pio of Pietrelcina. Amen.
Fun Fact: The Liberty Ship "Patrick E. Perry" was built in 4 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes. There was a completion between various shipyards. By 1943 the average time it took to build a Liberty Ship was around 30 days.