The SS Leviathan Leaving New York City 1928 Postcard

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The SS Leviathan Leaving New York City 1928 Postcard

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The Leviathan Leaving New York City 1928 Postcard, 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 its 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 US 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.

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September 10th, 2020

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