LEVIATHAN TO BE SCRAP METAL
ONCE BIGGEST LINER IN THE WORLD
FAMOUS AS TRANSPORT IN WAR TIME
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received December 6, 10.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 5. The United States Line announces that it has sold the Leviathan, the famous war time troop transport, to Metal Industries (London) for scrap metal. The price was 800,000 dollars. The Leviathan will leave soon under her own power for England.
The Leviathan was formerly the German liner Vaterland. She was built for the Hamburg-Amerika Line at Hamburg in 1914, and in 1921 she was still the world’s biggest liner.
When the war broke out the Vaterland was in New York harbour. She remained there until 1917, and when the United States entered the war she was taken over, used as a transport and renamed the Leviathan. She carried 12,000 troops on each trip, and special moorings had to be constructed for her at the American base in France. After the war several offers were made for the Leviathan, but each time the sale was frustrated by injunction proceedings brought by Mr William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper publisher.
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Southland Times, Issue 23376, 7 December 1937, Page 7
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