![]() The four pictures above are illustration of this love for the LEVIATHAN. Only a few thousand of each volume were published making these books one of the rarest in the library of the Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives.īY WAY OF APOLOGY for the detail in this first volume and for the whole idea of four volumes on one ship, I would like to offer as an explanation a lifelong passion for this ship. Braynard produced this first volume literaly out of love and the generosity of a few hundred people. Packed with amazing photographs, reproductions of newspaper articles. The first volume takes us from the construction of the VATERLAND to the end of World War One, when the VATERLAND now the U.SS Leviathan was used as a troup transport. The world would come to know her best as the LEVIATHAN, one of the grandest and most storied ocean liners of all time. ![]() In September 1911, workers in the shipyard of Blohm & Voss in Hamburg started on a new ship that would be christened VATERLAND. ![]() ![]() Leviathan: "The World's Greatest Ship" Volume 1īraynard, Frank O., Leviathan " "The World's Greatest Ship," New York: South Street Seaport Museum (1972). ![]()
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