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6 unusual facts about SS Leviathan


Clarence Chamberlin

After spending the summer in Europe, Chamberlin returned home on the SS Leviathan.

Frank Braynard

Frank is the author of 34 books including the six-volume encyclopedic work on the ocean liner, SS Leviathan

Frederick B. Llewellyn

Llewellyn helped develop the first public ship-to-shore telephone service, inaugurated in 1929 on the SS Leviathan.

SS Leviathan

The second of three sister ships built by Germany's Hamburg America Line for their transatlantic passenger service, she sailed as the Vaterland for less than a year before her early career was halted by the start of World War I.

The New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra

Taking its name from the SS Leviathan, a transatlantic ocean liner with a well regarded dance band at the start of the 1920s, the orchestra was founded in 1972.

United States Navy Dental Corps

The first dental officer stationed on a ship was LT(JG) Carl Ziesel aboard the transport USS Leviathan, at that time, the world’s largest ship.



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