In July 1917 the ship was commissioned as USS Vaterland and on 6 September 1917 renamed USS Leviathan (ID-1326) and assigned to the Cruiser and Transport Force. The ship's first troop transport voyage departed New York on 17 December 1917 with 7,250 troops.

The USS Leviathan, operating as an American troopship in 1918, began life in Hamburg in 1914, where she was launched as the Vaterland, the pride of the German passenger fleet. When the USA entered the war in 1917 , the Vaterland was resting at anchor in New York.

The ocean liner Leviathan was one of the largest and most popularly recognizable passenger ships on the Atlantic in the 1920s. Like all ocean liners, the ship was at once a complex and powerful machine as well as a socially stratified hotel catering to …

2015年7月29日 · Leviathan (SP-1326), ex 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...

Leviathan (SP-1326), ex 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 ocean liner Leviathan was one of the largest and most popularly recognizable passenger ships on the Atlantic in the 1920s. Like all ocean liners, the ship was at once a complex and powerful machine as well as a socially stratified hotel catering to …

2024年7月4日 · Unsurprisingly, the influenza pandemic reached the USS Leviathan: in one instance from September 1918, 2,000 soldiers got sick while another 80 died. By the time the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, the USS Leviathan had brought over 110,000 American soldiers to Europe.

2014年12月31日 · History of the U.S.S. Leviathan, Cruiser and Transport Forces, United States Atlantic Fleet Bookreader Item Preview

As S.S. Leviathan, she was the "queen" of the United States' merchant fleet, and operated in the trans-Atlantic trade into the early 1930s. She was not profitable, however, and, with the exemption of several months of additional service in 1934, Leviathan was inactive until early 1938, when she made a final Atlantic crossing to Scotland, where ...

Such was the case with the USS Leviathan (SP-1326), the Navy’s largest troopship in World War I. She made 38 transatlantic crossings during the war period, including nine in which she brought U. S. soldiers home following the armistice.