Liberty-class cargo ship anchor - Lithuanian Sea Museum (Klaipeda, LT) - Anchors on Waymarking.com

Depicted anchor of the Liberty-class cargo ship is a part of outdoor veteran-vessels exposition of the Lithuanian Sea Museum in Smiltyne, Klaipeda.

In the late 19th century, the English Captain Hall offered an improved and durable construction of the anchor with all its parts cast in a metallurgy factory. The displayed Hall’s anchor with rotated horns was found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Supposedly, it was used in the Liberty-class cargo ship. The anchor was made in the USA in the first half of the 20th century.

Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. Though British in conception, they were adapted by the U.S. as they were cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. Based on vessels ordered by Britain to replace ships torpedoed by German u-boats, they were purchased for the U.S. fleet and for lend-lease deliveries of war materiel to Britain and to the Soviet Union via deliveries through Iran. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Libertys between 1941 and 1945, easily the largest number of ships produced to a single design. [wiki]

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