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Photo #  NH 94331:  S.S. Leviathan en route to Newport News, Virginia, to be refitted, April 1922


Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --

S.S. Leviathan (American Passenger Liner, 1914) --
Refitting for Commercial Service, 1922-1923


This page features all the views we have concerning the refitting of S.S. Leviathan in 1922-1923.

For other images related to this ship, see:

  • S.S. Leviathan (American Passenger Liner, 1914). Originally the German S.S. Vaterland.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 94331

    S.S. Leviathan
    (American Passenger Liner, formerly the German Vaterland of 1914)

    Photographed in April 1922, while en route to Newport News, Virginia, to be reconditioned for commercial service.
    This ship had served as USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) in 1917-1919, and was then laid up for more than two years. Note her rusty condition.

    Courtesy of the Naval Medical Command Archives, 1983.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94332

    S.S. Leviathan
    (American Passenger Liner, formerly the German Vaterland of 1914)

    Photographed in April 1922, while en route to Newport News, Virginia, to be reconditioned for commercial service.
    This ship had served as USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) in 1917-1919, and was then laid up for more than two years. Note her rusty condition.

    Courtesy of the Naval Medical Command Archives, 1983.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94333

    S.S. Leviathan
    (American Passenger Liner, formerly the German Vaterland of 1914)

    Photographed in April 1922, while en route to Newport News, Virginia, to be reconditioned for commercial service.
    This ship had served as USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) in 1917-1919, and was then laid up for more than two years. Note her rusty condition, which highlights the rivets in her hull plating.

    Courtesy of the Naval Medical Command Archives, 1983.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 69162

    S.S. Leviathan
    (American Passenger Liner, formerly the German Vaterland of 1914)

    Workmen leaving the ship for lunch on 15 June 1922, while she was being refitted for commercial service at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia.

    Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93533

    Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard,
    Newport News, Virginia

    Aerial photograph of the yard's pier area, February 1923.
    USS West Virginia (BB-48) is fitting out in the left center. In right center is S.S. Leviathan, refitting for commercial service.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     

    For other images related to this ship, see:

  • S.S. Leviathan (American Passenger Liner, 1914). Originally the German S.S. Vaterland.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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