SS Leviathan 1924The 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 the start of World War I. In 1917, she was seized by the U.S. government and renamed Leviathan. She wouldContinue reading “SS Leviathan, originally built as Vaterland (meaning “Fatherland” in German), was an ocean liner which regularly crossed the North Atlantic from 1914 to 1934.”
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