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Photo # NH 57301:  Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Mrs. Daniels on board USS Leviathan

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USS Leviathan (ID # 1326), 1917-1919 --
On Board and Close Up Views (Part V: Passengers)


This page features views of some of USS Leviathan's passengers.

For more on board and close up views of USS Leviathan, see:

  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) -- On Board and Close Up Views (Part I: Ship's Exterior).

    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 105966

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Abandon ship drill on board the ship, circa 1918-1919.
    Note life rafts on the ship's superstructure, "C" Deck sign, "overseas" caps worn by most of the troops (though one has a wide-brimmed campaign hat), and life preservers.

    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103161

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Troops and Sailors relaxing on the ship's forward decks, while she was en route from the United States to France in 1918.
    Note Soldiers sitting on the cargo boom in left center.
    Photographed from Leviathan's port bridge, looking toward the bow.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103163

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Troops and Sailors relaxing on the ship's forward decks, while she was en route from the United States to France in 1918.
    Photographed from Leviathan's port bridge, looking toward the bow.
    Note Soldiers sitting on the cargo boom in the center, canvas windsail ventilators, life rafts and life boats.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41881

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Troops on board the transport, 1918. All appear to be wearing life jackets. Note the men seated on cargo booms.
    View looks forward and to starboard from the ship's port bridge wing.
    Photographed by Zimmer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 152KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41882

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Troops wearing life jackets on board the transport, 1918. Many of the men are seated on cargo booms.
    View looks forward and to starboard from the ship's port bridge wing.
    Photographed by Zimmer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 146KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57301

    Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels


    With Mrs. Daniels on board USS Leviathan (ID # 1326), just before they sailed for France in late 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53321

    Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels


    With members of his party on board USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) before sailing for Europe in late 1918.
    Those present are, from left to right:
    Mr. May, Secretary Daniels' Private Secretary;
    Captain William W. Phelps, ship's Commanding Officer;
    Mrs. Daniels;
    Secretary of the Navy Daniels;
    Rear Admiral Robert S. Griffin, Chief, Bureau of Steam Engineering;
    Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, Chief, Bureau of Construction & Repair; and
    Rear Admiral Ralph Earle, Chief, Bureau of Ordnance.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57087

    Secretary of War Newton H. Baker
    (front, center)

    On board USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) "when 12,000 men returned" to the U.S. from France on her, circa 1919.
    The man standing in the rear, second from left, is Mr. Virgin, Librarian. A Knights of Columbus representative is seated beside Secretary Baker, at right.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51406

    USS Leviathan (ID # 1326)


    Nurses aboard the transport pose in rubber survival suits, during a World War I Atlantic crossing.
    The Navy officer with them is wearing a life vest.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 600 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103206

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in 1919, showing Sailors and troops waiting to go ashore after the ship's arrival at her Hoboken, New Jersey, terminal.
    This image, photographed by Paul Thompson, 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: 98KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     

    For more on board and close up views of USS Leviathan, see:

  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) -- On Board and Close Up Views (Part I: Ship's Exterior).

    For other 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 images added 10 November 2008