XIV 



THE MODERN LINER 



WE are now getting to the end of our 

 " family tree ", upon the liner side, indeed, 

 there are only two entries, the Leviathan, 

 1923, and the Bremen, 1929. Strictly the 

 Leviathan ought to have the date 1914, 

 since that was the year of her coming 

 into service under the name of Vaterland. 

 She was practically a sister ship of the 

 Imperator. 



At the outbreak of the Great War, the 

 Vaterland had reached New York and 

 there she was interned by the Americans. 

 So soon as the Germans realised that 

 America was coming into the War, they 

 got aboard the Vaterland and other German 

 liners which were laid up at New York, 

 and wrecked completely the propelling 

 machinery. The Americans, however, got 



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