Telstar Logistics (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
A few weeks ago our friends from BoingBoing invited Telstar Logistics fleet operations officer Todd Lappin to tour the World War II Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien as part of a video segment for BBtv. The O'Brien is one of...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
By Brandee A. Thomas, The Brunswick News, Ga. Jul. 29--Glynn County residents may have forgotten about plans for the Liberty Ship Park on the Brunswick River, but city officials haven't.
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... It could be a project office embedded in the Office of the Secretary of Defense [OSD] called "Liberty Ship". Perhaps modelled on the US Air Force's famed Big Safari project office in Dayton, Ohio, OSD may be using Liberty Ship to skirt around the traps and tripwires of the military's acquisition system. The code word Liberty Ship was first mentioned in...
Telstar Logistics (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... were able to hit four of the stops on the self-guided tour: The Long Now Museum , the World War II Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien , the World War II submarine USS Pampanito , and the Musee Mechanique. All were excellent, although the Jeremiah O'Brien scored extra points by firing up one of its boilers for the tour. The ship's giant pistons were bouncing up and down throughout...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
It was heartwarming to read "In praise of... Sunderland" (August 13). However, you missed one of Sunderland's most important claims to fame. The arriviste wonks at Policy Exchange clearly think they no longer owe Sunderland a living. In fact they owe it their lives. Early in the second world war, when Atlantic convoys were being devastated, a decision was taken to build Liberty Ships...
Telstar Logistics (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
... (BBtv video) USS Pampanito (official website and home page) PREVIOUSLY: We Tour A World War II Liberty Ship with BoingBoingTV The USS San Francisco: When Submarines Collide Homemade Submarine Intercepts Queen Mary II (IMAGES: photos by Telstar Logistics )
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
BBtv guest correspondent and blog pal Todd Lappin of Telstar Logistics takes us inside a steam-powered World War II "Liberty Ship," the SS Jeremiah O'Brien. We marvel (!) at the cool old retro-technology that kept this behemoth boat running to and from the beaches of Normandy, and we meet the volunteer caretakers -- obsessive nerds just like us, only with white hair! -- who keep her ship-shape...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
... and playwright, he enlisted in 1943 and crewed with Guthrie and folksinger Cisco Houston aboard Liberty ships.Guthrie's tunes are a big part of the story, as the trio sung and played their way across the Atlantic and Mediterranean to Sicily and then Normandy.
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... and playwright, he enlisted in 1943 and crewed with Guthrie and folksinger Cisco Houston aboard Liberty ships. Guthrie’s tunes are a big part of the story, as the trio (Woody, Cisco and Jim) sung and played their way across the Atlantic and Mediterranean to Sicily and then Normandy. Related Posts T-Shirt and Mug Giveway for ‘Relative Madness’ “Relative Madness” is offering a T-Shirt...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
... and playwright, he enlisted in 1943 and crewed with Guthrie and folksinger Cisco Houston aboard Liberty ships.Guthrie's tunes are a big part of the story, as the trio sung and played their way across the Atlantic and Mediterranean to Sicily and then Normandy."It is an untold aspect of WWII, with great characters and music," Leder told Daily Variety. She said that she and her brother...
Random Rodricks (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Former Sun editor Ernie Imhoff, author of Good Shipmates , about the rescue and restoration of the World War II Liberty ship John W. Brown, says this is a big deal -- the ship having never been to Baltimore's Inner Harbor, where more visitors can get a tour of this almost-last-of-its-kind vessel. The S.S. John W. Brown , Baltimore’s still operating World War II museum ship,...
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... was able to hit four of the stops on the self-guided tour: The Long Now Museum , the World War II Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien , the World War II submarine USS Pampanito , and the Musee Mechanique . All were excellent, although the Jeremiah O’Brien scored extra points by firing up one of the ship’s boilers for the tour. The ship’s giant pistons were bouncing up and...
Suicide Bots (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Long Now Foundation presents Mechanicrawl this Saturday! San Francisco has a plethora of automatic treasures that hardly anybody knows about. Mechanicrawl is an effort to help people discover these mechanical marvels and help these institutions survive. Highlights of the tour include the giant 3 story steam engine inside the Liberty Ship...
Intellectual Poison (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Fire Boat Originally uploaded by fenriq . Seeing this fire boat was the highlight of Grady's afternoon out on Fisherman's Wharf but he really enjoyed just about all of it. We got to see a submarine up close and he exclaimed "That boat goes underwater!" We also got to the the liberty ship already in my photostream, a big cargo ship, a ferryboat docking and a high speed ferry boat...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
... the only American to exhibit with the original Impressionists and the namesake for a World War II Liberty ship. Asher Durand , founder of the New York Drawing Association and the artist of “The Beeches,” was the American equivalent of the British landscape artist John Constable. Abbott Thayer’s “A Virgin” took inspiration from the Sherman Monument, a winged female figure leading the...
