(erielack) B2308: The "mystery ship"

["Paul R. Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_comcast.net>]

In this morning’s Steamtown images, photo B2308 showed the “Bohemia” and an unidentified ship. My friend Steve Hepler, a nautical fan himself, provided me the identification:

 

Paul,

I saw the photo of the "ships at Hoboken" on the EL site...   they were unsure of the name of the (very large) 3-funneled liner... (pic atached)

It was the German Vaterland... of the Hamburg-Amerika Line... later seized by the USA during WW I and transformed into the US troop ship... "SS Leviathan" by the firm of Gibbs & Cox.  After the war, the ship became the flagship of the United States Lines as a transatlantic liner with the same name (Leviathan).

William Francis Gibbs later designed and built the SS United States of the United States Lines.

See this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Leviathan

Steve



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