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Photo # NH 10:  Sailors on USS Leviathan watch the arrival of USS George Washington in New York Harbor, 8 July 1919

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USS Leviathan (ID # 1326), 1917-1919 --
On Board and Close Up Views (Part I-A: Ship's Exterior, Page 2)


This page features additional exterior views taken on board or close up to USS Leviathan.

For more on board and close up views of USS Leviathan's exterior, 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."

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

    Photo #: NH 103164

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    View looking aft from Leviathan's port bridge while she was at sea in 1918, showing "A" Deck and lifeboats suspended from their davits, ready for launching in an emergency.
    Note officers and men wearing life jackets, oars and coiled line in the lifeboats.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41739

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Life boat drill on the ship's port side boat deck, circa Autumn 1918.
    Note officers and crewmen standing by, wearing life jackets.
    Photographed by Zimmer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 116KB; 610 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41738

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Abandon ship drill, circa Autumn 1918, showing lifeboats ready for launching from the ship's port side.
    Photographed by Zimmer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 128KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 104696

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph looking toward the stern, showing the ship's after mast, with its cargo-handling booms and winches.
    Note the life rafts at right, and kingposts and other liferafts in the middle distance.
    This image was published in 1919 as one of ten photographs in a "Souvenir Folder" of views concerning USS Leviathan.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105841

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    View looking aft from atop the observation platform atop Leviathan's after (dummy) smokestack, 1919.
    Note the ship's mainmast and lookout station, cargo-handling booms, stowage for lifeboats and life rafts, and troops and Sailors on deck.
    The original image is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.

    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 96KB; 435 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 104814

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    View of the ship's after deck, seen from her mainmast top while she was in harbor, 1919.
    Note the life rafts and boats stowed atop the ship's after deckhouse, with two of her six-inch guns visible beyond.
    The original photograph was printed on post card ("AZO") stock.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 440 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 104815

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Troops topside on the ship's after deck, seen from her mainmast top while she was underway in 1919.
    Note the men seated on and in the life raft nests and stowed boats, and lifeboats rigged under davits at the sides of the after deckhouse.
    The original photograph was printed on post card ("AZO") stock.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 10

    USS George Washington
    (ID # 3018)

    Arrives in New York Harbor with President Woodrow Wilson and his party on board, as they return to the U.S. from the World War I peace conference in France, 8 July 1919.
    Transport in the foreground, with U.S. Ensign flying and Sailors on deck watching George Washington arrive, is USS Leviathan (ID # 1326).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103166

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    View of the ship's stern, taken at Hoboken, New Jersey, on 8 July 1919, as her crew members watched USS George Washington (ID # 3018) arriving from France with President Woodrow Wilson on board.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 655 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105519

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Seen from directly astern while in dry dock, 1918, showing her four screws and rudder. She is painted "dazzle" camouflage.
    The original image is printed on postcard ("AZO")stock.

    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image size: 84KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105968

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Coaling from barges alongside, in Brest harbor, France, circa 1918.

    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 450 x 765 pixels

     


    For more on board and close up views of USS Leviathan's exterior, 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 28 May 2007
    New images added 10 November 2008