S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien Steam From Drydock to San Francisco
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2018
- Steaming the World War II and D-Day Normandy Invasion veteran, Liberty Ship "S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien", from the Mare Island drydock at the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, in Vallejo, California.
We arrived the night before and spent the night on the ship, listening to the steam coursing through the ships' "veins". The next morning they began flooding the drydock at 0700 hours. Once the drydock was fully flooded, and the cason towed away, the main engine was warmed through and we got under way en route to her berth at Pier 45 in San Francisco, California.
A VERY big thank you to volunteers Devin Montalbano and Seth Adams for making this amazing opportunity available to us.
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I was a Boiler Tech in the US Navy and it is great to see these old steamers still in operation, a lot different than 1200psi Steam turbines, I got to take my hat off to the engineers that keep those old steamers a running! Bravo Zulu!!
My dad was the Western Director of MARAD - Frank Johnston. Spent many years on the Jeremiah O'Brien during fleet week. His retirement party was held here as well. Dad certainly loved this ship and contributed resources during his tenure at MARAD. We lost him in January. RIP. Dad. Captain and RADM.
My dad was on many of these ships during WW 2. He sailed in many convoys to England and had many ships torpedoed beside them many times. He sailed in the Atlantic and Pacific war zones He was in the Mediterranean war zone also. He was on the first ship to sail back across the Pacific to America with the lights on after the Japan surrender. He was a Merchant Marine during all of WW 2. We lost him in 2013, he wanted to come and see this ship but passed before we could get him there.
My father was a Navy gunner stationed aboard Liberty Ships, he felt horrible that his shipmates didn’t receive veterans benefits because they weren’t “military”, they were being shot at and torpedoed and that’s about as military as you can get! By the way, I inherited a book from him that lists the fate of every Liberty ship built. If anyone wants to know about a certain ship respond here and I’ll look it up.
It only took 24 days to build one of these ships from scratch to launch.
One of the people who worked on her , Robert Jacobson, my grand father passed away on febuary 4, 2019. I remember him giving me a tour and showing me all the hard work that he and others like him put into her. he was very proud of his involvement.
Almost 70 years old and still going strong. You go old girl!
My dad was a Merchant Marine during WW2. He and I took a ride on the Jeremiah O'Brien back in 2002. He died in 2019. It was an awesome father / son bonding experience. I have pictures we took of each other when we wandered down to "shaft alley". We were under way and got to see the prop shaft actually turning. We had a great time. I miss my dad so much.
I've been living in SF my whole life and I've never been aboard the O'Brien. I need to rectify that one day soon.
I have always thought that the movie Titanic should have been filmed just like this one. Mostly in the engine room. Who needs the love story lol...
As a Vietnam era US Navy Machinist Mate 1200 LB steam system spinning a turbine this is makes our Main Propulsion look simple. Great video.
First time I went on board a steam powered ship was at Charlestown Navy yard back in 61, I was 11 years old and the chief of the boiler rooms handed me a ash stick about 6 feet long and instructed me as " these boilers are running at 600 psi and there are steam lines everywhere. You don't take a step forward without raising this stick to over your head and to the deck because if there is a steam leak you won't see it but if a piece of the stick falls off you freeze as you just found a steam leak and if you don't it can cut you in half if you walk into it. She was in the process of coming out of dry dock like you see here. I taken no more than 14 steps when a piece of the stick got cut off so I froze and yelled at the chief. He came up behind me and it was determined the leak was in the main pipe feeding the throttle. The ship left dry dock three days later after a new pipe was installed.
Awesome seeing Mare Island still being used as a shipyard, but it should be a Navy shipyard!
One of my favorite museum ships. Named after my ancestor and the winner of the first naval battle of the American Revolution. Built here in Portland, Maine and one of the few ships to return to Normandy for the 50th anniversary of D day under her own steam (not a pun). I visited her when she returned to the place of her birth when returning from Normandy. Very impressive amount of work and dedication to keep her spirit alive. Someday we must visit her on the other coast.
My wife and I had the great experience to sail aboard the O’ Brien and salute the USS Iowa as she sailed to her museum port in Los Angeles, leaving Almeda NAS
I have not read all of the comments yet but I have been on this ship. There is a plaque on it stating that for the Cameron Movie Titanic, this is the engine room shown in the movie.
Super !
Would love to be born a hundred years earlier as a ship engineer, Imagine these engines doubled in size in the mighty ocean liners...
I was on board of Jeremiah O'Brien in 2018 actually in San Francisco,amazing ship
Thanks for this video... Brings back lots of memories and specific stories I could tell about engine room life *chuckle*. There's not many of those old "liberty" ships left, quite a few sank shortly after the war due to bad welds etc. They built so many of these so fast during WWII the quality control was spotty. The motion picture "The Finest Hours" is a true story about the night two split in half in a storm. "On Feb. 18, 1952, a massive storm splits the SS Pendleton in two, trapping more than 30 sailors inside the tanker's sinking stern. Engineer Ray Sybert bravely takes charge to organize a strategy for his fellow survivors. As word of the disaster reaches the Coast Guard in Chatham, Mass., Chief Warrant Officer Daniel Cluff orders a daring rescue mission. Despite the ferocious weather, coxswain Bernie Webber takes three men on a lifeboat to try and save the crew against seemingly impossible odds." To this day Bernie Webber and his crew are considered heroes in the ranks of the USCG. This is a fantastic movie IMO...