Comparison of the Fifteen Leading Transports
(From The Transport Ace, Newspaper printed on board the “Leviathan”)
The following comparison shows the number of round trips made, and the number of troops carried to Europe, by the fifteen leading transports up to the time the Armistice was signed, November 11, 1918.
| Ship | No. of round trips | Largest No. in one trip | Total troops carried |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leviathan | 10 | 10,860 | 119,215* |
| George Washington | 9 | 5,529 | 46,159 |
| President Grant | 8 | 5,811 | 44,182 |
| America | 9 | 5,327 | 39,674 |
| Agamemnon | 10 | 4,917 | 35,026 |
| Mount Vernon | 9 | 4,763 | 33,549 |
| Great Northern | 10 | 3,058 | 27,590 |
| Aeolus | 8 | 3,551 | 24,327 |
| President Lincoln | 5 | 4,888 | 23,438 |
| Northern Pacific | 10 | 2,755 | 21,903 |
| Martha Washington | 8 | 3,055 | 21,900 |
| Covington | 6 | 4,133 | 21,754 |
| Princess Matoika | 6 | 3,865 | 21,163 |
| Huron | 8 | 2,917 | 20,771 |
| Pocahontas | 9 | 2,920 | 20,474 |
* The total of 119,215 for the Leviathan includes Naval Supernumeraries and crew carried on the first ten Eastbound trips. The present voyage makes the 14th round trip for this vessel.
The greatest number of persons carried by the Leviathan was on our sixteenth westbound trip when we had on board (including Naval Crew), a total of 14,300 persons.
