Keywords: Lot-11263-1: German ocean liner Vaterland at New York probably after she was seized by the United States Shipping Board after the United States entered World War I. Turned over to the U.S. Navy, she became USS Leviathan, July 1917 and served as a troop ship throughout the war until October 1919. She then served again as a liner in the U.S. as SS Leviathan until 1934 and was sold for scrapping in June 1939. George G. Bain Collection. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/07/01). Lot-11263-1: German ocean liner Vaterland at New York probably after she was seized by the United States Shipping Board after the United States entered World War I. Turned over to the U.S. Navy, she became USS Leviathan, July 1917 and served as a troop ship throughout the war until October 1919. She then served again as a liner in the U.S. as SS Leviathan until 1934 and was sold for scrapping in June 1939. George G. Bain Collection. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/07/01). |