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Liberty ship

noun

  1. a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.


liberty ship

noun

  1. a supply ship of World War II
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

My high school science teacher, who staffed a gun tub on a Liberty ship in World War II, once mistook Venus for a highflying enemy airplane and tried to shoot it down.

“The last Liberty ship I got off, I swore to God I would never get on another one,” the 93-year-old U.S.

His mother was 19 when she reached the United States on the second Liberty ship carrying refugees from Europe after the war, and was the only member of her family to survive Auschwitz, he said.

“They assigned me to another ship because there were a couple holes in the first ship,” he said of the Liberty ship he was first stationed on.

The Oglethorpe “slid down the ways” at Southeastern Shipbuilding in Savannah on Nov. 20, 1942, marking the launch of the first Liberty ship built here.

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