SS Leviathan (1913)

SS Leviathan steaming out of New York Harbor, circa the mid-1920s.

The SS Vaterland was a German ocean liner that was seized by the U.S. government in 1917 and renamed “Leviathan.” It was used as a troop ship for the remainder of the war.

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