Relationship to Titanic disaster / inquiries.
Mentioned during testimony of Edward Wilding - Naval Architect - Harland & Wolff in relation to her constuction in relation to Titanic's. Also mentioned in the Limitation of Liability deposition of Admiral David Taylor, Chief Constructor of the U. S. Navy.
Data:
April 13, 1913
Launched by Blohm & Voss,
Hamburg, Germany, as Vaterland for the Hamburg-America Line.
May 14, 1914
Maiden Voyage:
July 1914
Following the outbreak of World War I the vessel was laid up in Hoboken, New Jersey, rather than risk a return trip to Germany.
April 6, 1917
Following the entry of the U. S. in World War I the vessel was seized and commissioned as a troopship.
July 1917
Commissioned as USS Vaterland.
September 6, 1917
Renamed Leviathan
October 29, 1919
Decommissioned.
July 4th 1923
Maiden voyage for U. S. Line.
1937
Sold to the British Metal Industries Ltd.
February 14, 1938
Arrived at Rosyth, Scotland, to be broken up.
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