Liberty ship

American  

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.

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liberty ship British  

noun

1. a supply ship of World War II

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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.

From Washington Post

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

From Washington Post

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.

From New York Times

“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.

From Washington Times

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.

From Washington Times