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Photo # NH 51396:  USS Leviathan tied to a mooring buoy, 1918

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USS Leviathan (ID # 1326), 1917-1919 --
Camouflage Views, 1918 (Part II: Port Side)


This page features all the imagess we have related to USS Leviathan's port side "dazzle" camouflage pattern, and provides links to her starboard side pattern.

For views of this ship's starboard side "dazzle "camouflage pattern, see:

  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) -- Camouflage Views, 1918 (Part I: Starboard Side).

    For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326), 1917-1919.


    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 105764

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    At anchor, circa mid- or late-1919, while wearing "dazzle" camouflage.

    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image size: 89KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51396

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph showing the ship moored to a buoy in 1918. She is painted in "dazzle" camouflage.
    The original photograph was taken by Enrique Muller, New York.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103198-A

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph showing the ship tied to a mooring buoy in 1918, while she was painted in "dazzle" camouflage.
    Note the ship nickname used in the original picture caption: "The Big Chief".
    This image was published in 1919 by the National Specialties Company of New York City, as one of ten photographs in a "Souvenir Folder" of views concerning USS Leviathan.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51395

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    At Pier Number 4, Hoboken, New Jersey, 19 April 1918. She is painted in "dazzle" camouflage.
    The covered lighter alongside the ship is marked (faintly) "U.S. Navy Provisions & Clothing Depot".
    Photographed by the New York Navy Yard.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 154KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51394

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    At Pier Number 4, Hoboken, New Jersey, 19 April 1918. She is painted in "dazzle" camouflage.
    Photographed by the New York Navy Yard.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 77161

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Photographed from USS Warrington (Destroyer # 30), 1918.

    Courtesy of Gustavus C. Robbins, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 45KB; 740 x 355 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92952

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Photographed in 1918.
    The destroyer in the right foreground may be USS Downes (Destroyer # 45), which had a similar (though not identical) camouflage scheme.

    Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1981.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 425 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105389

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    In New York Harbor, 1918, with a tug steaming by on the right and a battleship in the left background.
    Photographed by E. Muller, Jr., 198 Broadway, New York City, and printed on postcard stock.
    See Photo # NH 105176-A for a view of the reverse side of another postcard that is formatted identically to this one.

    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2007.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image size: 65KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 43284

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Passing a light ship while at sea in 1918. A destroyer is in the left background.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 430 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105517

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    In New York Harbor, 1918, while painted in "dazzle" camouflage.
    Photographed by E. Muller, Jr., New York.

    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image size: 102KB; 900 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103198

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken from USS Northern Pacific as both ships were steaming through heavy seas en route to France during September 1918.
    This image was published in 1919 by the National Specialties Company of New York City, as one of ten photographs in a "Souvenir Folder" of views concerning USS Leviathan.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51393

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Docked at Hoboken, New Jersey, on 8 July 1918, while painted in "dazzle" camouflage.
    Photographed by the New York Navy Yard.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 580 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51389

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Plan of "Dazzle" camouflage intended for the ship, circa 1918.
    This design, for Leviathan's port side, is similar to, but not exactly the same as the camouflage scheme she actually received.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 1200 x 565 pixels

     

    For views of this ship's starboard side "dazzle "camouflage pattern, see:

  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) -- Camouflage Views, 1918 (Part I: Starboard Side).

    For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326), 1917-1919.


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


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    Page made 30 October 2005
    New image added 10 May 2008