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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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