 In the end, it was decided that what the looming war was going to require were ships that could be built quickly using prefabrication by workers relatively unskilled in shipbuilding and in greatest numbers with the available resources.With that, the Liberty ship was adopted as the only emergency type to be built, thus was shared by all of the new emergency shipyards.While all the new yards were able to get their first keels laid in a very short time, the first of the Liberty ships to be launched was the , which rolled down the ways at the Bethlehem-Fairfield yard on September 27, 1941.