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WITHDRAWAL FROM SERVICE. CONTINUAL LOSS INVOLVED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington, March 19. The Department of Commerce to-day granted the United States Line permission to withdraw the steamship Leviathan from the trans-Atlantic service. The giant German liner, which the Government acquired in the Great War and reconditioned at a cost of £1,600,000, was the flagship of the American Line, but was a continual financial failure. In exchange for permission to break the contract to keep the vessel in the service the line agreed to construct a sister ship to the Manhattan and the Washington, with the Government probably granting financial assistance under the Roosevelt shipping subsidy plan now pending in Congress.
The Leviathan, of 59,957 tons, formerly the Vaterland, is 907 feet long and was built in 1914.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1935, Page 7
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