Rivet, SS <i>Leviathan</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Pounded by a large wave during an Atlantic storm in December 1929, the passenger ship <i>Leviathan</i> developed a serious crack. It ran across C Deck just aft the forward funnel uptakes and down the ship’s starboard (right) side. This rivet was one of 6,000 produced to fasten replacement steel plates to the ship’s hull when the crack was repaired in February 1930, while the <i>Leviathan</i> lay at the government pier in Hoboken, New Jersey.
label: Description
content: The ocean liner <i>Leviathan</i> 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 <i>Leviathan</i> 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 <i>Leviathan</i> was sold to Scottish shipbreakers in 1938 and dismantled.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Massachusetts
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frank O. Braynard, Sea Cliff, New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0856.17
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0856.17
label: accession number
content: 1991.0856
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Rivet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/8 in x 2 5/8 in; x 23.8125 cm x 6.6675 cm