Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merchant marine may not have many ships in operation, but among them is the largest ship afloat, the 59,957-ton S. S. Leviathan of the United States Lines. The U. S. Lines are responsible to the U. S. Shipping Board, which is responsible to Congress, which is responsible to all the people...
Last week Skipper Herbert Hartley of the Leviathan, commercial commodore for all the people, resigned. He said he wanted a home ashore after 35 years at sea. He said he would go into the cotton business. To succeed him, the Shipping Board promoted Vice Commodore Harold A. Cun- ningham of the United States Lines, long captain of the S. S. George Washington, now of the Leviathan...
Commodore Cunningham was the man everyone had expected would command the Leviathan when, refurbished after her War service, she was recommissioned in 1923. As a lieutenant commander in the Navy during the War, Commodore Cunningham had navigated the Leviathan as a troopship after she was seized from Germany and her name, the Vaterland, erased...
...just before the Leviathan was ready, Harold A. Cunningham was senior officer of the U. S. Lines and Herbert Hartley, having had the bad luck to run aground first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, was a skipper without a ship and with no great hopes of getting one. Last week, Mr. Hartley himself retold the "fluke" by which he became Commodore...
Fares. Beginning Feb. 1, the North Atlantic Steamship Conference announced from its Paris office last week, first-class fares on ships like the Leviathan, Majestic and Maurentania would increase $7 between U. S. and Continental ports. First-class fares on the President Roosevelt, the France and ships of their class will not be changed. But for second-class passage on all ships the price mounts $5. Tourist cabin charges go up slightly...