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{{short description|World War II Liberty ship of the United States}}
{{For|ships with a similar name|USS Robert E. Peary}}
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{USN flag|1946}}
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|Ship namesake=[[Robert Peary]]
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|Ship builder=Permanente Metals Corporation, Yard No. 2, Richmond, California
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|Ship sponsor=Mrs. James F. Byrnes
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|Ship decommissioned=December 1946
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| Ship class= Type EC2-S-C1 [[Liberty ship]]
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| Ship displacement={{convert|14245|LT|MT}}<ref name="davies">{{cite web |url=http://ww2ships.com/acrobat/us-os-001-f-r00.pdf |title=Liberty Cargo Ships |first=James |last=Davies |work=ww2ships.com |year=2012 |page=23 |access-date=6 May 2012}}</ref>
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'''SS ''Robert E. Peary''''' was a [[Liberty ship]] which gained fame during [[World War II]] for being built in a shorter time than any other such vessel. Named after [[Robert Peary]],
▲'''SS ''Robert E. Peary''''' was a [[Liberty ship]] which gained fame during [[World War II]] for being built in a shorter time than any other such vessel. Named after [[Robert Peary]], a American explorer who claimed to have been the first person to reach the geographic North Pole, she was launched on November 12, 1942 just 4 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes after the [[keel]] was laid down.<ref name="Scott">{{cite book|author1=Scott, Tim|author2=Rundall, Thomas G.|author3=Vogt, Thomas M.|author4=Hsu, John|title=Implementing an electronic medical record system: successes, failures, lessons|page=11|publisher=Radcliffe Publishing|year=2007|isbn=9781857757507|location=Abingdon, UK}}</ref>
==Construction==
Roosevelt agreed to a proposal to build a ship in half the time. To meet the deadline, the Richmond Shipyard prefabricated as much of the vessel as possible at its No. 2 Yard and pre-positioned the sections to enable the workers to assemble it with maximum efficiency.<ref name="Veronico31" /> The keel was laid at 12:01 am on
The record speed of the construction was a propaganda effort<ref>{{cite video
The record speed of the construction was a propaganda effort intended to show that the United States could produce ships faster than they could be sunk. Normally, the Permanente yard took an average of about 50 days to build a Liberty ship. In fact, though, it could not realistically be done much faster as there was not enough steel or capacity to build them at such a pace.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Spulber|editor-first=Daniel F.|title=Famous fables of economics: myths of market failures|last=Thompson|first=Peter|page=264|chapter=How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? New Evidence for an Old Case Study|title=Famous Fables of Economics: Myths of Market Failures|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2002|isbn=9780631226758|location=Malden, MA}}</ref> The ship was referred to as a "stunt ship", though Henry Kaiser referred to it as an "incentive ship" because of the boost that it provided to his workers' morale.<ref>{{cite book|last=Adams|first=Stephen B|title=Mr. Kaiser goes to Washington: the rise of a government entrepreneur|page=115|publisher=UNC Press Books|year=1997|isbn=9780807823583|location=Chapel Hill, NC}}</ref> Nonetheless, the extreme rapidity of the ''Robert E. Peary''{{'s}} construction illustrated how successfully US shipyards had adopted methods of mass production that had been pioneered in the motor industry; at the start of the Liberty ship program, the ships took an average of 1.4 million man-hours and 355 days to build, but by 1943 the figures had come down to under 500,000 man-hours and an average of 41 days.<ref>{{cite book|last=Overy|first=Richard|title=Why the Allies Won|page=238|publisher=Random House|year=2006|isbn=9781845950651|location=London}}</ref>▼
| year =1942
| title =Video: America Reports On Aid To Allies Etc. (1942)
| url =https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.38937
| publisher =[[Universal Newsreel]]
| access-date =February 21, 2012
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==Service career==
''Robert E. Peary'' sailed on her maiden voyage on
==See also==
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==External links==
* [http://www.usmm.org/peary.html American Merchant Marine at War website]
* [http://www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/visit.php Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802000702/http://www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/visit.php |date=2014-08-02 }} for Liberty Ship ''[[SS Jeremiah O'Brien]]''
* [http://www.ssjohnwbrown.org/ Website] for Liberty Ship ''[[SS John W. Brown]]''
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[[Category:Liberty ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in Richmond, California]]
[[Category:1942 ships]]
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