History of the U.S.S. Leviathan, cruiser and transport forces, United States Atlantic fleet. U.S.S. Leviathan History Committee
the ground tackle, the data is:
| Stem anchor | 24,000 | lbs.; | chain | 150 | fathoms |
| Starboard, lower | 22,000 | ” | ” | 150 | fathoms |
| Port, lower | 22,000 | ” | ” | 165 | fathoms |
| Spare | 22,000 | ” | |||
| Stock or stream anchor | 7,000 | ” |
The ship is equipped with a 36,000 candle power searchlight and when lighted at night may be seen for a distance of forty miles.
A German Account of the Seizure
The following is a translation of a clipping from a German newspaper, the Tageblatt of Wurtemberg, taken from a dead German soldier, by a first-class private of Headquarters Troop, 27th Division, A. E. F.:
It was translated and loaned by him to the ship’s history committee while en route from France to the United States on board the Leviathan.
The soldier while serving as an interpreter and doing intelligence work with the headquarters came upon this clipping in a queer manner on or about August 31, 1918, immediately after Kemmel Hill had been evacuated by the Germans. The lines had formerly been held by the British and had been stationary for about four months until the Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth American divisions were given that sector. After being in the line a short while the Germans evacuated, fearing that the Americans might attack and his Imperial Majesty’s Army had no wish to meet up with some of Uncle Sam’s fire-eaters. While going over the field after the Germans had left, this man came upon a German soldier who had been shot in the head. He evidently had been dead for some weeks. Being a part of his work and duty, he took from the pocket of the dead man a newspaper, expecting to find some information that might prove valuable. He found the following translation which he immediately cut out and saved to show a friend on the Leviathan,
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