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Vaterland / Leviathan (SP 1326)
Built in 1912 by Blohm und Voss, Hamburg, Germany; Acquired by the Navy, June 1917; Commissioned USS Vaterland
(SP 1326), 25 July 1917; Renamed Leviathan, 6 September 1917; Decommissioned, 29 October 1919 and transferred to the United States Shipping Board; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrap, 10 December 1937 to a British firm.
Specifications: Displacement 58,000 t.; Length 950'; Beam 100' 4"; Draft 37' 9"; Speed 26 kts.; Complement 1,165; Armament eight 6", two 1-pounders and two machine guns; Propulsion steam, one shaft.
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Steaming out of New York in wartime camouflage, probably 1917. US Navy Photo |
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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Leviathan (SP-1326). Former SS Vaterland, built as Germany's largest passenger liner by Blohm und Voss, Hamburg, was launched 13 April 1913; seized at Hoboken, N.J., by the U.S. Shipping Board when the United States entered World War 1, 6 April 1917; turned over to the custody of the U.S. Navy in June 1917; and commissioned 25 July 1917. Renamed Leviathan by President Woodrow Wilson on 6 September 1917. Decommissioned 29 October 1919, she was returned the same day to the U.S. Shipping Board. Her reconditioning completed in June 1923, the Board turned her over to the United States Lines to operate on their behalf. United States Lines employed her in transatlantic passenger service until 10 December 1937 when she was sold for scrapping to a British firm. She was broken up at Rosyth, Scotland, 6 June 1938.
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