![]() ![]() On her trial trip, June 22, 1923, she made a record of 28.04 knots per hour.īeing the biggest, safest, and fastest steamer of modern times would seem a sufficient reason to entitle the Leviathan to first place among American ships. She is not only the safest ship in the world, but the fastest. Aside from the Leviathan’s colossal size, there are other reasons why we consider her a valuable and interesting war trophy. The name was changed to Leviathan, which according to the dictionary, means “something huge and formidable.”Īfter the war, the ship was refitted as a luxury passenger liner once more. The Vaterland, at anchor in American waters, was seized and converted into a U.S. ![]() This magnificent specimen of ship-craft came into the possession when we declared war on Germany. ![]() Can you imagine a ship so huge, that its length, up-ended, would be forty-three feet higher than the combined height of the Woolworth Tower and the Statue of Liberty? Such a monster is the Leviathan, once the Vaterland, pride of Germany’s great merchant marine. ![]()
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