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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Leviathan

SS Leviathan, the ocean liner originally built as Vaterland (meaning "Fatherland" in German), was seized by the United States Shipping Board when the United States entered World War I on 6 April 1917 and served as a troop carrier until she was decommissioned in late 1919. The Wikipedia article says, "Having languished in political limbo at her Hoboken pier until April 1922, a decision was finally made and $8,000,000 in funds were allocated to sail Leviathan to Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, for her 14-month reconditioning and refurbishment. War duty and age meant that all wiring, plumbing, and interior layouts were stripped and redesigned while her hull was strengthened and her boilers converted from coal to oil while being refurbished; virtually a new ship emerged. ... She immediately proved popular with the American public in the '20s, starting her career fully booked for her maiden voyage departing on 4 July 1923." See Americus Times-Recorder. June 20, 1923, Page 4 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89053204/1923-06-20/ed-... for a piece on her re-fit, which says, "LARGEST vessel afloat, equipped and appointed more luxuriously than any other craft in the world, the mighty steamship Leviathan, flying the house flag of the United States Lines will sail from New York on July 4 for her first trip to Southampton." The Atlanta Tri-weekly Journal. June 21, 1923, Page 6 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89053713/1923-06-21/ed-... reports on a 5-day trial voyage for the Leviathan from Boston to Cuba.

For more Flickr pictures, many from the Bain collection, tagged "USS Leviathan (ID-1326)" see www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ussleviathanid1326

Some of the people on the 5-day sea trial voyage are listed in timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/06/20/10599548...

Thanks for providing the additional background information as well as referencing the related photos of the Leviathan, swanq.

Mischa Elman, 1891-1967, aka Mikhail Saulovich Elman or Moishe Elman, Ukrainian/American violinist, aboard the Berengaria setting off on an 8 month tour of Europe. Though Elman met his future wife, Helen, aboard the Berengaria on this passage the woman with him is probably his sister and accompanist Liza. See and

Helen Carr, performer www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/helen-carr-467365 S. also photo in the New-York tribune. [volume], December 07, 1919, Page 13 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-12-07/ed-...

"SPLASH PARTY FOR MISS CARR. - Fifteen swimmers and divers from "Better Times" at the Hippodrome gave a "splash" party aboard the United American liner Resolute before that vessel sailed for Hamburg yesterday. The party was in honor of Miss Helen Carr, a passenger for Hamburg, who was the high diver at the Hippodrome in "Happy Days." Miss Carr is going to Germany to give a swimming and diving exhibition. The Hippodrome swimmers held a thirty minutes' frolic In the pool on board the Resolute and entertained early passengers with an exhibition of fancy diving." The New York herald. [volume], September 20, 1922, Page 11, col. 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1922-09-20/ed-...

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Thanks B-59. We'll update the photo's description.