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To: Ken W who wrote (18130)	1/2/2000 8:48:00 AM
From: Ditchdigger	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29382

OT,,I am still simply amazed by the internet,,absolutely incredible,,where will it be by the end of next year..The reason I bring this up,,I own a ships clock,which has been handed down in my family from my great grandfather, who was a US Navy Commander way back when..Well to make a long story short, the clock was confiscated from the Kaiser Wilhelm suite of rooms off of the oceanliner "Vaterland" so I figured I'd do some research..and did find the ship,apparently later named the "Leviathan"... "Brief History: 05-14-1914 maiden voyage from Cuxhaven to New York / 08-1914 caught in New York harbor when war breaks out / 04-05-1917 seized by US Shipping Board / 07-25-1917 handed over to US Navy to serve as troup ship / 09-06-1917 renamed "Leviathan" / 09-1919 idle in New York harbor / 02-1922 taken to Newport News, major reconstruction work to turn her into a passenger liner again / 06-19-1923 trials for United States Line, New York / 1932 taken out of service, idle in New York / 1934 four voyages New York-Southampton, again taken out of service / 01-26-1938 leaves New York for Rosyth in Scotland, where she is scrapped 02-14-1938." uiowa.edu This is absolutely amazing stuff..even a tour uiowa.edu feel like I'm making the Titanic movie<g>,,well back to my research, the clock was made in Hamburg..later,DD gosh this gets better'n better.. The rapid development of the transatlantic ocean liner would have never been possible if not for the intervention of politics. One could say that the North German Lloyd's record-breaking 14,300-ton "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" started a kind of "arms race" in shipbuilding between Germany and Great Britain. Up to 1897, British supremacy on the oceans of the world was virtually unchallenged. The British owned the largest and the fastest vessels afloat, and most of the immigrants of the time left Europe out of Liverpool or Southampton. The "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse," however, marked the beginning of a humiliating decade of German superiority on the North Atlantic - a serious blow to Victorian pride. The German Kaiser, who strongly encouraged the establishment of "Imperial maritime honor," was delighted.