1917 World War 1 " Leviathan " Brooklyn Naval Yard Certificate Of Service
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1917 World War 1 Brooklyn Naval Yard"Leviathan" Certificate of Service
SS Leviathan, originally built as Vaterland (meaning "Fatherland" in German), was an ocean liner which regularly crossed the North Atlantic from 1914 to 1934. The second of three sister ships built for Germany's Hamburg America Line for their transatlantic passenger service, she sailed as Vaterland for less than a year before her early career was halted by t...he start of World War I. In 1917, she was seized by the U.S. government and renamed Leviathan. She would become known by this name for the majority of her career, both as a troopship during World War I and later as the flagship of the United States Lines.
Commanding Officer Capt. BryanDecommissioned as the Leviathan in October 1919, it became the S.S. Leviathan under the U.S. Shipping Board and United States Lines.
Ship departed Hoboken on January 25, 1938 for Scotland to be scrapped.
See picture for condition, Contained in air tight packaging to protect it
SS Leviathan, originally built as Vaterland (meaning "Fatherland" in German), was an ocean liner which regularly crossed the North Atlantic from 1914 to 1934. The second of three sister ships built for Germany's Hamburg America Line for their transatlantic passenger service, she sailed as Vaterland for less than a year before her early career was halted by t...he start of World War I. In 1917, she was seized by the U.S. government and renamed Leviathan. She would become known by this name for the majority of her career, both as a troopship during World War I and later as the flagship of the United States Lines.
Commanding Officer Capt. BryanDecommissioned as the Leviathan in October 1919, it became the S.S. Leviathan under the U.S. Shipping Board and United States Lines.
Ship departed Hoboken on January 25, 1938 for Scotland to be scrapped.
See picture for condition, Contained in air tight packaging to protect it
