Anybody remember the bad welding that was done on a lot of the Liberty Ships? I shipped out on the SS Adanus Burke a Liberty ship, we hit a three day storm in the south Alantic . We had 60 foot seas, our cargo had shifted and the ship would list hard to starboard .The two lifeboats and the two rafts on the starboard side were ripped away by the heavy seas. The bulkhead cracked and we had water in the crews mess deck. I heard a lot of storys about Kaiser built ships that broke in half.
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