ART MODEL STUDIOS WATERLINE PRESENTATION MODEL OF THE S.S. "LEVIATHAN"
America, Circa 1950
With red and white waterline and black and white topsides. Painted decks well-detailed with winches, bollards, hatches, railings, masts with cargo booms and winches, bridge and bridge wings, life boats, funnels in U.S. Lines livery, and many other features. Displayed on a painted sea with bow and stern waves. Mahogany base with glass cover. Also includes a period photo of the ship by Stewart Bale, 9" x 11" sight, framed 14" x 16.5".
Cased height 12.5". Length 35". Width 7.5".
Provenance:
The Stephen D. Weinroth Collection.

Notes:
The second of Albert Ballin's trio of superliners, the "Vaterland", later known as the "Leviathan", was built at Blohm & Voss and went into service in 1914. Her career as a German passenger liner was brief; while she was docked in Hoboken, New Jersey, the United States entered World War I and seized "Vaterland". She was commissioned to the U.S Navy and served as the U.S.S. "Leviathan". During her service she carried 119,000 American Expeditionary Force troops to Europe. She was decommissioned from the U.S Navy in 1919 and later resumed transatlantic passenger service in 1923 as the S.S. "Leviathan". She continued in passenger service until 1937 when she was sold to the ship breakers Rosyth & T.W. Ward of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Excellent.

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