Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steamship skippers, like horsemen and motorists sensitive to what they drive, say that a ship you are used to never feels quite the same after she has been handled a while by someone else. In the case of the S. S. Leviathan, the saying would hold specially true for a man who last handled her during the War, when her German name, Vaterlard, had just been erased and before she was remodeled to be the luxurious flagship of the U. S. Lines...
Captain Harold A. Cunningham, the Leviathan's present skipper, is such a man. But when last week, on his very first trip with the Leviathan since the War, his first trip as Commodore of the U. S. Lines, he ran his ship aground on Brambles Bank in Southampton Water, he was too good a sport and too proud a sailor to offer even an old saying for an excuse...
...more idea of being offered the command of the Leviathan that day than a child," said Mr. Hartley. "When we were chatting after the meal one of the officials said to me, 'How would you like to have command of the Leviathan?' I replied, 'Stop your kidding.' To my sur- prise, he said, 'I am not kidding. We want a captain for the Leviathan, and if you would like to have the ship, come round to the Shipping Board offices at 4 o'clock this afternoon...
...shortly after 5 o'clock that day I left the building with my appointment to take command of the Leviathan in my pocket. Commodore Cunningham, "Handsome Harry" to his colleagues and a charming memory to ladies and gentlemen who have sat at his table, received his promotion with little comment. He was bringing the George Washington through a ponderous North Atlantic storm at the moment. After docking, all he said was: "The bridge of the Leviathan is just a little higher, but I'll be just the same up here. Come...
These craft, queens of their pampered class, compare feebly with their professional big sisters. The Leviathan is 907 ft. long; 59,957 tons...