WWII Liberty Ship USS FRED C. STEBBINS Oil Painting STEAMSHIP MARITIME c. 1947
Signed by the Artist W. 17″x 23-3/4″x 1-1/2 Unframed. Liberty ships were nicknamed. “Ugly ducklings” by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Named after Fred C. Jonathan Sturges when it was torpedoed in the North Atlantic 1942. Built in 1945, Official Number 247059, St. John’s River Shipbuilding Co. Before we left’Norfolk-, two old liberty ships USS George… (read more)