The ship was decommissioned in 1947 and used for educational purposes to train merchant sailors. Sources: The John W. Brown Visits the Great Lakes. It contains pages for Living History Cruises, Charters, port visits, educational programs, speaker bureau, gallery, news blog, history of the ship, and a contact This review focuses on a unique enterprise known as Project Liberty Ship whose efforts have kept the a real WW2 merchant vessel still running after nearly 70 years: the SS John Brown. The ship conducts 6-hour Living History Cruises about four times a year and travels to other east coast ports. The Liberty ships, often known as the workhorses of the war, could carry up to 500 soldiers and 9,000 tons of cargo. The Brown has been fully restored and is an operating museum ship and memorial. 8.6K likes. This is the home site of the SS JOHN W BROWN, a WWII Liberty ship that was assembled in Baltimore Maryland and launched September 7, 1942. Book your Carnival Liberty cruise today! Below are the planned dates for Living History Cruises aboard S.S. JOHN W. BROWN in 2018. The Liberty Ship S.S. JOHN W BROWN will be open for tours in Baltimore’s inner harbor August 13 – 16. The SS Jeremiah O'Brien is one of two remaining fully functional Liberty ships of the 2,710 built and launched during World War II. The World War II Liberty Ship SS John W. Brown, following a successful scheduled maintenance visit to a Virginia shipyard, will return to Baltimore Sunday, February 9, and relocate to a new mooring site at Pier 13 on the Canton waterfront at Newgate Avenue.. In a ceremony at Toledo Ship Repair July 13, the last ceremonial "Golden Rivet" was driven in to the hull of the World War II Liberty Ship John W. Brown. Project Liberty Ship is dedicated to the preservation of the Liberty Ship S.S. JOHN W BROWN as a living memorial to the men and women who built the great Liberty Fleet and to the merchant seamen and U.S. Navy Armed Guard who sailed the ships across the oceans of the world. Eventbrite - Project Liberty Ship, INC presents SS JOHN W BROWN June 15, 2019 Living History Cruise - Saturday, June 15, 2019 at Cruise Maryland Terminal , Baltimore, MD. If you prefer to purchase tickets by mail order (using a check or credit card), email us at john.w.brown@usa.net, subject line: CRUISE and the date you are interested in and we will email you an order form.. Return to the Travel Baltimore main page. Find event and ticket information. Now a National Historic Landmark, the SS John W. Brown is used for living history cruises. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 86. By 1982, the ship was no longer used for training and it was later moved to Baltimore in 1988. During dockside visits and cruises in the Chesapeake Bay, the John W. Brown … The ship was decommissioned in 1947 and used for educational purposes to train merchant sailors. The O'Brien has the distinction of being the last unaltered Liberty ship and remains historically accurate.