Mystic Steamship Company
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Mystic Steamship Company, also known as Boston Tow Boat Company, was a Boston, Massachusetts shipping company named after the Mystic River. The company operated from 1854 until its closure in 1985.
Mystic Steamship Company's Tug Luna, at Chelsea, Massachusetts, October 2015
Liberty ship
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Liberty ships are a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Although British in concept, the design was adopted by the United State
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…with charter shipping with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. After the war, Mystic Steamship purchased some World War surplus Liberty ships, both tankers and collier types. Luna, tugboat, a City of Boston Landmark…
SS Jeremiah O'Brien, one of the four surviving Liberty ships, photographed in 2022
A colored diagram of compartments on a Liberty ship, from the right side, front to the right Machinery spaces Command and control Liquid stores Dry cargo Engine room Misc Dry stores Habitation
140-ton vertical triple expansion steam engine of the type used to power World War II Liberty ships, assembled for testing before delivery
Engine room (model cutaway)