Photo #: NH 51336
USS Leviathan (ID # 1326)
Returning from France with nearly nine thousand men on board,
including about four thousand Sailors who had been on duty in
the war zone. Photo shows scene on the deck of the ship, at its
pier in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the men eagerly waiting the
word to disembark, 16 December 1918.
Note heavily riveted hull sides, six-inch gun, cargo boom and
life rafts.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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