1928 Commodore Cunningham US Fleet *Transatlantic Liner

1928 Commodore Cunningham US Fleet *Transatlantic Liner

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25th January 1928
Cunningham gets Leviathan Command as Hartley retires to home ashore

Photo shows Vice Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, who had been promoted to fill the place of Herbert Hartley, who has tendered his resignation as Commodore of the United States Lines Fleet. Thus Cunningham would have been the new Commander on the bridge of the Leviathan.

Fotografia d'epoca del Commodoro Harold A. Cunningham che sostitui' il dimissionario Herbert Hartley alla guida della United States Lines Fleet e al comando del Transatlantico americano Leviathan.

Photo International Newsreel - New York City

Vera fotografia d'epoca, originale e autentica, completa di didascalia dattiloscritta al verso e di timbro dell'Archivio de "L'Illustrazione Fascista".

In mediocri condizioni, presenta varie macchie al fronte (vedere scansione). Di tale circostanza si è naturalmente tenuto conto nella determinazione del prezzo.

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Note: SS Leviathan, originally built as SS Vaterland, was an ocean liner which regularly sailed the North Atlantic briefly in 1914 and from 1917 to 1934. The second of a trio of transatlantic liners built by Germany's Hamburg America Line for the transatlantic passenger service, she would sail as Vaterland for less than a year before her early career was halted by the start of World War I. In 1917, she was seized by the U.S. government and renamed Leviathan. She would become known by this name for the majority of her career, both as a troopship during World War I and later as the flagship of the United States Lines.
In April 1922 the decision was made about the role of the ship and the Leviathan steamed to Newport News, Virginia, where she was completely renovated to suit American tastes and post-World War I standards. Her reconditioning completed in June 1923, the Board turned her over to the United States Lines to operate on their behalf as the U.S. Flag ocean liner Leviathan.
As SS Leviathan, she was the "queen" of the United States' merchant fleet, and operated in the trans-Atlantic trade into the early 1930s. Dubbed "Levi Nathan", the ship was reasonably popular, but because of her American registry she had to sail as a "dry ship" under Prohibition and many American travellers preferred European liners which were permitted to serve alcohol once they were in international waters. Despite this handicap, Leviathan in 1927 was the #1 ship on the Atlantic in terms of average passengers carried per crossing. The Great Depression hit passenger shipping hard and Leviathan, like other big liners of the time, began to lose money. She was laid up in 1933 and, with the exception of several months of additional service in 1934, was inactive until 10 December 1937, when she was sold to a British firm and made her final Atlantic crossing to Rosyth, Scotland shortly thereafter, where she was broken up over the next two years.

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25th January 1928
Cunningham gets Leviathan Command as Hartley retires to home ashore

Photo shows Vice Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, who had been promoted to fill the place of Herbert Hartley, who has tendered his resignation as Commodore of the United States Lines Fleet. Thus Cunningham would have been the new Commander on the bridge of the Leviathan.

Fotografia d'epoca del Commodoro Harold A. Cunningham che sostitui' il dimissionario Herbert Hartley alla guida della United States Lines Fleet e al comando del Transatlantico americano Leviathan.

Photo International Newsreel - New York City

Vera fotografia d'epoca, originale e autentica, completa di didascalia dattiloscritta al verso e di timbro dell'Archivio de "L'Illustrazione Fascista".

In mediocri condizioni, presenta varie macchie al fronte (vedere scansione). Di tale circostanza si è naturalmente tenuto conto nella determinazione del prezzo.

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Note: SS Leviathan, originally built as SS Vaterland, was an ocean liner which regularly sailed the North Atlantic briefly in 1914 and from 1917 to 1934. The second of a trio of transatlantic liners built by Germany's Hamburg America Line for the transatlantic passenger service, she would sail as Vaterland for less than a year before her early career was halted by the start of World War I. In 1917, she was seized by the U.S. government and renamed Leviathan. She would become known by this name for the majority of her career, both as a troopship during World War I and later as the flagship of the United States Lines.
In April 1922 the decision was made about the role of the ship and the Leviathan steamed to Newport News, Virginia, where she was completely renovated to suit American tastes and post-World War I standards. Her reconditioning completed in June 1923, the Board turned her over to the United States Lines to operate on their behalf as the U.S. Flag ocean liner Leviathan.
As SS Leviathan, she was the "queen" of the United States' merchant fleet, and operated in the trans-Atlantic trade into the early 1930s. Dubbed "Levi Nathan", the ship was reasonably popular, but because of her American registry she had to sail as a "dry ship" under Prohibition and many American travellers preferred European liners which were permitted to serve alcohol once they were in international waters. Despite this handicap, Leviathan in 1927 was the #1 ship on the Atlantic in terms of average passengers carried per crossing. The Great Depression hit passenger shipping hard and Leviathan, like other big liners of the time, began to lose money. She was laid up in 1933 and, with the exception of several months of additional service in 1934, was inactive until 10 December 1937, when she was sold to a British firm and made her final Atlantic crossing to Rosyth, Scotland shortly thereafter, where she was broken up over the next two years.