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Photo # NH 69056:  USS Leviathan in the North River, New York City, with 8,000 troops on board, 16 December 1918

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USS Leviathan (ID # 1326), 1917-1919 --
Views taken in late 1918 and in 1919 -- Part II


This page features additional views of USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) taken after the end of World War I.

For more images of this ship during this time, see:

  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) -- Views taken in late 1918 and in 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 69056

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Steaming up the North River, New York City, on her way to her pier with 8,000 troops on board who are returning home from France, 16 December 1918.
    Tugs alongside indicate that the ship is moving into her berth.

    Courtesy of San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100305

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    In New York Harbor, with tugs assisting her into her berth, circa late 1918 or 1919.
    Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood and published by the Keystone View Company.

    Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 96KB; 620 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 100305-A

    Online Image of stereo pair: 59KB; 675 x 360 pixels

    For a view of the reverse side of the original stereograph card, see Photo # NH 100305-B.

     
    Photo #: NH 51397

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Photographed in 1919. She is probably arriving in New York Harbor from France, bringing service personnel home from the former World War I combat zone.
    Photographed by the Navy's Bureau of Navigation.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41868

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    Arriving at New York after a voyage across the Atlantic from France, 1919.
    Note fireboat, spraying water in welcome.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 53KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 65572

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)
    (Formerly the German Passenger Liner Vaterland)

    Photographed from the top of the Woolworth Building, New York City, while departing for a trans-Atlantic voyage in 1918-1919.

    Courtesy of Mrs. Mabel Croft Graham, 1968.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103126-B

    USS Leviathan
    (ID # 1326)

    At Hoboken, New Jersey, probably circa late May 1919.
    Photographed by Picot, 15 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
    This view is cropped from Photo # NH 103126.

    Donation of Georgia Adams Grann and Caryl L. Adams, 2005. The original print came from the collection of their father, George W. Adams, who enlisted in the Navy in 1908.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 345 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103126

    USS Imperator
    (ID # 4080), at left,
    and
    USS Leviathan (ID # 1326)

    At Hoboken, New Jersey, probably after Imperator's first trans-Atlantic voyage as a U.S. Navy ship, circa late May 1919. At that time, these were the World's largest ships, hence the photo's title: "The 'Giants' of the Sea".
    Panoramic photograph by Picot, 15 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
    Note the large decoration on Imperator's bow.

    Donation of Georgia Adams Grann and Caryl L. Adams, 2005. The original print came from the collection of their father, George W. Adams, who enlisted in the Navy in 1908.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 1200 x 280 pixels

     


    USS Leviathan is seen in the center background of the following photograph of another ship:

    Photo #: NH 100626

    USS Tudno
    (1918-1919)

    Underway at Brest, France, while serving as a ship-to-shore ferry for U.S. forces based there, soon after the end of World War I.
    Large ship in the center distance is USS Leviathan (ID # 1326).

    Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1986.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     


    For more images of this ship during this time, see:

  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) -- Views taken in late 1918 and in 1919 .


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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