how big were liberty boats?

Pattie Vold: another one in Baltimore. Only two in USA. A third is now being set up as a museum in Greece were over 100 were sold to Greece and used for many years as frieghters to replace the ships Greece lost in the war.

Karey Dunken: There is an operating Liberty Ship here on San Francisco Bay.http://www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/All the information You might need.

Antwan Schrum: these are called liberty ships and all the info you need is on Liberty ship Wikipedia. The ships that were converted to carriers were victory ships the difference between the two types was that liberty ships had piston steam engines and victory ships had steam turbines. The turbine was a much more efficient and smoother running engine and was usually faster.

Barton Sease: I think everyone so far have misunderstood the question. What your asking about were the small boats that shuttled sailors a shore so that they could go on liberty. These were also called gigs. Most were abo! ut 30 ft. with a bench seat all the way around. They were powered by a a small inboard engine and operated by a coxswain.

Dwight Siniard: Name: Liberty shipBuilders: 18 shipyards in the USAPlanned: 2,751Completed: 2,710Class and type: Cargo shipDisplacement: 14,245 tons[1]Length: between 400 and 450 feetBeam: 17.3 m (56 ft 10.75 in)Draft: 8.5 m (27 ft 9.25 in)Propulsion: Two oil-fired boilers,triple-expansion steam engine,single screw, 2,500 horsepower (1,864 kW)Speed: 11 to 11.5 knots (20 to 21 km/h)Range: 23,000 miles (37,000 km)Capacity: 10,856 metric tons of deadweight (DWT)[1]Complement: 41 menArmament: Stern-mounted 4-in (102 mm) deck gun for use against surfaced submarines, variety of anti-aircraft gunsMy Grandfather worked in Baltimore welding and laid the keel on many built in Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, MarylandGood Luck - Boat Safe!...Show more

Will Camus: I'm not sure. Most of those were out of service when I served.We u! sed what we carried. We had the Captain's gig, a fiberglass bo! at about 20 ft long. We also ran a couple of the Ship's landing boats. The SEALs had their Boston Whalers. What boats got used depended on where we were. Sometimes, it was a commercial boat pulled up alongside. There were a few times we used some of the boats in the well deck.I served on an LSD....Show more