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TIL The United States built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945, averaging 1.5 ships a day. Liberty Ships were quick simple cheap cargo ships needed for the mass transport of supplies. The ships were lightly armed but the SS Stephen Hopkins manged to fight a cargo raider to mutual destruction.

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