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...Leviathan's 301st...
...TIME for Jan. 31 you say the Leviathan has started on her 301st voyage. Sloppy work, fellows. I saw the same computation in newspaper dispatches, but I thought TIME was alert enough not to fall for such an obvious example of muddleheaded mathematics. The Leviathan was built in Germany, wasn...
...retired in 1934 after 35 years of service, the 65 seamen picked in South Shields emerged from third class of the liner Berengaria in Manhattan. Their "special job''-with the help of 40 Canadians and 40 U. S. engineers and fire-men-was to take the famed Leviathan on her 301st and last sea voyage...
Steaming at 15 knots the Leviathan will make a ten-day non-stop voyage to the 1,500-acre naval base off the little village of Rosyth to be scrapped. Sole passenger will be an auctioneer, housed in the Imperial Suite, listing her furnishings for public sale. Costing, with repairs and rebuilding, over $30,000,000, the Leviathan was sold to Sheffield and Glasgow metal firms for $732,000, plus an estimated $40,000 for the journey to the scrap yard. At the helm of a big ship for the last time, Captain Binks lamented: "I know ships...
...Leviathan sinks," was the cry that was circulating on the river yesterday afternoon as sixteen wet Yardlings were ferried back to Newell boat house from the stricken ship...