Return to Brunswick shipyard and St. Simons Island...

    3 March 2022

Blythe Island Regional Park Campground, Blythe Island, Georgia

Marc-  We set out to revisit the Brunswick waterfront to find a World War II memorial dedicated to the builders and sailors of the Liberty ships built here during the War.  We also found the old Shipyard ways where the ships were actually built and launched.  This is important to me since my father served on board several of these ships while in the US Merchant Marine during World War II and the Korean War.

Scale model of a Liberty Ship

Brunswick Shipyard where 99 Liberty Ships were built.

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Then we visited St. Simons Island again.  Traffic was heavy as we toured around the Island.  The highlight today was seeing Christ Church itself.  A docent gave us a description of the origins of the Church and the builder of current building.  The Church has beautiful stained glass windows.

Rear window of the Christ Church and a marble sculpture of the builder when he was a young boy. His mother seems to have known an Italian like Michelangelo.

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We stopped for a walk in a roadside park on St. Simons Island.  An information board noted that live oak was harvested here for construction of the USS Constitution, still afloat in Boston.

The USS Constitution is still a USN Commissioned ship.

Turtle

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Giant bridge that allows the car-carrying ships to pass under.

South Brunswick river marsh.

A ship in a marsh?  

A shipload of cars.