CHERBOURG; Transatlantique Leviathan, posted August 1925 – on GreatShips (more)

LEVIATHAN Leaving New York City

She and Bismarck shared a novel design feature: the uptakes which  led from her furnaces to her funnels were split and ran along the  outside of the ship, rather than straight up the middle. This allowed  for much bigger public rooms, undivided by funnel uptakes, than had been  possible on earlier ships.  GreatShips (more photos and postcards)

 



Maritime Monday for January 30, 2012; This is Leviathan

CHERBOURG; Transatlantique Leviathan, posted August 1925 – on GreatShips (more)

LEVIATHAN Leaving New York City

She and Bismarck shared a novel design feature: the uptakes which led from her furnaces to her funnels were split and ran along the outside of the ship, rather than straight up the middle. This allowed for much bigger public rooms, undivided by funnel uptakes, than had been possible on earlier ships.  GreatShips (more photos and postcards)

Maritime Monday for January 30, 2012; This is Leviathan