SS Leviathan Pocket Knife
SS Leviathan Pocket Knife
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- Description
- A souvenir pocketknife sold to passengers aboard the passenger ship Leviathan.
- The ocean liner Leviathan was built as the Vaterland for Germany's Hamburg-American Line in 1914. During World War I the American government seized the ship and operated it as a troopship. After a complete reconditioning at Newport News, Virginia, in 1922-23, the Leviathan became the flagship of the new United States Lines, which operated it for the U.S. Shipping Board until 1929. Subsequently sold into private hands, the ship ran until 1934. Laid up as a result of high operating costs and low Depression-era patronage, the Leviathan was sold to Scottish shipbreakers in 1938 and dismantled.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Knife, Pocket
- date made
- 1920s
- used date
- 1923-1938
- Associated Place
- United States: New York
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- mother-of-pearl (outside material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; x 1.27 cm x 8.255 cm
- ID Number
- 1991.0856.34
- catalog number
- 1991.0856.34
- accession number
- 1991.0856
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frank O. Braynard, Sea Cliff, New York
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- Work and Industry: Maritime
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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