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Show WAR RECORD "OF LEVIATHAN Monster Transport Carried Many Thousands of Soldiers to French Ports. The giant transport' Leviathan, following fol-lowing her arrival in New York harbor har-bor with Gen. Pershing and troops of the First division, brought to -a close her important service in helping win the war. The big ship, after being refitted for passenger service, is to be turned back to the United States shipping ship-ping board, the agency which seized it when the United States entered the war. Willie the future of the ship is uncertain, it is reported that she will be assigned to American passenger passen-ger trade between New York and Liverpool, with possible extension in the future of a service to Hamburg. The Leviathan, formerly the Yater-land, Yater-land, the second largest ship in the world, was interned in New York by the Germans in 1014. She was "wilfully "wil-fully damaged" to the extent of more than $1,000,000. After being reconditioned recon-ditioned by American engineers, she was assigned as a transport, and during and since the war made 19 round trips on the Atlantic, carrying a total of 1S5.500 soldiers, of whom 98,321 were carried overseas through submarine infested seas. She was always al-ways a mark for U-boats, but her speed and the armament with which she was equipped saved her. |
