Later on United States Lines bought it and turned it back into a luxurious transatlantic ship. It had a band that was pretty good and recorded music for Victor Records, mostly fox trot tunes. The vessel then became the USS Leviathan troop carrier and ferried some 100k doughboys to and from Europe. This is the Hoboken company owned by Andrew Fletcher that worked on the huge vessel's boilers after it was confiscated from the Germans in 1917 (they called it the SS Vaterland) by the US government when war was declared at the beginning of WW1. on the bell it says that it was given to the USS Leviathan's Engineering Department by the Consolidated Iron Works.

It says it is a Carl Fischer's American Model, New York, has a serial number under the model info. I recently picked up a Conn trombone at a flea market in restorable condition with a very interesting background. I currently have a 1962 EK Blessing trumpet, and a rare German Einheits bandoneon with three sets of reeds instead of two. I am a rank amateur when it comes to brass, but I like to restore vintage instruments with a history.

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