In June 1944,the Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien made eleven crossings of the English Channel carrying personnel and supplies to the Normandy beaches in support of the D-Day invasion. Thirty-three years later, skillful maneuvering by a U.S. Maritime Administration official saved the O'Brien from the scrap yard. In 1979, after hundreds of hours of labor by volunteer crew members to remove thick layers of preservatives, the O'Brien headed for San Francisco to be restored. No other ship ever has steamed out of the mothball fleet under her own power. Of the 2,710 Liberties made during the war, the Jeremiah O'Brien is the only one left in original condition.