176 Book of Steamships 



to work and made good the damage, and 

 it was a strange turn of fate that the 

 Vaterland which was designed to secure 

 American tourist traffic to and from 

 Germany, was employed to take American 

 troops to fight upon the western front. 

 She served splendidly during those critical 

 years, and after her service as trooper she 

 was handed over to the United States 

 Lines, and was practically rebuilt, coming 

 out as the Leviathan in 1923. From then 

 she has gone to and fro receiving a great 

 deal of patronage from the American 

 tourists to Europe. At the moment two 

 similar vessels are being built to share a 

 weekly service with her to Southampton. 

 A third mammoth liner was under 

 construction in German yards when War 

 broke out, this was to have been known 

 as the Bismarck , and she was even larger 

 than the Leviathan. Now here is a strange 

 fact, the Bismarck became the White Star 

 Majestic, with a tonnage of roughly 56,000, 

 but the Leviathan which had been the 



