9. Testimony of Edward Wilding, examined by Mr. Rowatt, Titanic Inquiry Day 19, pp. 20223–24, 20227, http://www.titanicinquiry.com/BOTInq/BOTInq19Wilding01.php, accessed February 28, 2008.
10. Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan, The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000), pp. 109–10.
11. Richard Austin Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” Fortune, August 1957, p. 158.
12. William L. R. Emmet, “Propelling Machinery for Collier Jupiter,” International Marine Engineering 17, no. 8 (1913), p. 324.
13. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 11.
14. Frank O. Braynard and Robert Hudson Westover, S.S. United States: Fastest Ship in the World (Paducah, KY: Turner, 2002), p. 17.
15. Ibid., p. 17.
16. William Hovgaard, “Biographical Memoir of David Watson Taylor, 1864–1940,” National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Biographical Memoirs, vol. 22, 7th memoir, presented to the academy at the annual meeting, 1941, p. 135.
17. Waldemar Kaempffert, “The Race for Ocean Supremacy: What Is the Limit?” New York Times, August 18, 1929.
18. Braynard and Westover, S.S. United States, p. 16.
19. Hovgaard, “Biographical Memoir of David Watson Taylor, 1864–1940,” p. 139.
20. Model and Notes, “1000-Foot Superliner, ‘Project S-171,’ Proposed American Passenger Ship,” 1916 (?), accession 1971.0074.000001, collection of the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia.
21. Ibid.
22. Alva Johnson, “The Mysterious Mr. Gibbs—II,” Saturday Evening Post, January 27, 1945, p. 97.
23. “Intruder Has Dynamite,” New York Times, July 4, 1915.
24. J. P. Morgan Jr. to Owen Wister, August 18, 1915, Letter Press Book 17, p. 94, International Mercantile Marine Folder, J. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
25. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 15.
26. Ibid.
6. PRIZES OF WAR
1. Frank O. Braynard, Leviathan, vol. 1 (New York: South Street Seaport Museum, 1972), p. 113.
2. Edward Hungerford, Saturday Evening Post, November 22, 1919, as quoted in Frank O. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship: The Story of the Leviathan, vol. 2 (New York: Fort Schuyler Press, 1976), p. 15.
3. Commander E. P. Jessop, “Repairing German Vandalism on Interned Vessels by Electric Welding,” Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, March 18, 1918, p. 124, as quoted in Frank O. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship: The Story of the Leviathan, vol. 1 (New York: South Street Seaport Museum, 1972), p. 120.
4. The North American (Philadelphia newspaper), July 5, 1923, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 1, p. 121.
5. Herbert Hartley, Home Is the Sailor (Birmingham, AL: Vulcan Press, 1955), pp. 78–70, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 1, p. 125.
6. General John M. Franklin, Recollections of My Life (Baltimore: Reese Press, 1973), p. 5, courtesy of Laura Franklin Dunn.
7. Ibid., p. 10.
8. Ibid., p. 22.
9. Ibid., pp. 11–19.
10. Ibid., p. 29.
11. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 1, p. 212.
12. Ballin to Ernst Francke, April 12, 1907, as quoted in Lamar Cecil, Albert Ballin: Business and Politics in Imperial Germany 1888–1918 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 32.
13. As quoted in Douglas R. Burgess Jr., Seize the Trident: The Race for Superliner Supremacy and How It Altered the Great War (New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005), p. 265.
7. A GIANT LIVES AGAIN
1. Frank O. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship: The Story of the Leviathan, vol. 2 (New York: Fort Schuyler Press, 1976), p. 18.
2. New York Herald, March 20, 1921, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 19.
3. Shipping Board Operations, Hearings Before Select Committee on U.S. Shipping Board Operations, House of Representatives, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Second Session, Reconditioning of U.S.S. Leviathan, Part 4 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1920), pp. 1346–47, National Archives, Washington, DC.
4. Ibid., pp. 1349–50.
5. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 11.
6. November 13, 1919, memo from J. J. Flaherty, Secretary, U.S. Shipping Board, to Major Cushing, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 11.
7. U.S. Shipping Board, Fourth Annual Report, p. 129, in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 18.
8. New York American, February 14, 1920, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 24.
9. October 4, 1921 statement by P. A. S. Franklin, in Marine Journal, November 12, 1912, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 25.
10. U.S. Senate, Document Number 231, 66th Congress, 2nd Session, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 28.
11. New York Evening Sun, September 10, 1920, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 61.
12. W. F. Gibbs to R. D. Gatewood, USSB, September 17, 1920, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 62.
13. John A. Morello, Selling the President, 1920: Albert D. Lasker, Advertising, and the Election of Warren G. Harding (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001), pp. 1–2.
14. Ibid.
15. “Lasker Says Loss on Wartime Fleet Was Four Billions,” New York Times, July 17, 1921.
16. Ibid.
17. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 90.
18. William Francis Gibbs, plans and construction specifications for the reconditioning of the S.S. Leviathan, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 46.
19. Ibid.
20. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 106.
21. Ibid., p. 112.
22. P. A. S. Franklin, as quoted in the New York Journal of Commerce, February 16, 1922, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 113.
23. Unidentified newspaper from Gibbs file, April 8, 1922, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 118.
24. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 18.
25. “The Leviathan’s Coming Trip,” New York Times, March 26, 1922.
26. New York Journal of Commerce, April 11, 1922, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 121.
27. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 128.
28. Leviathan construction specifications prepared by William Francis Gibbs, December 1921, collection of Frank O. Braynard, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 50.