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Several passengers and crew had died of influenza on the Leviathan’s previous voyage back from Brest, France, in September and had been buried at sea. Among those taken ill on that journey was the young Franklin D. Roosevelt , who had barely escaped with his life.
Sep 28, 2018 · On the 29th of September 1918, the transport ship Leviathan left the docks of Hoboken New Jersey on its voyage to Brest, France carrying troops and medical personnel. The problem started even before the ship departed, the passengers became victims of the dreaded influenza.
The surviving crew are finally informed of what has happened and realize that the Leviathan (ship) was experimenting with mutagens to the unknown crew. Dr. Thompson speculates that Soviet Russian scientists tainted the crew's vodka with live mutagen cells which made the crew members sick and mutated them into clones of a genetic undersea creature.
As far as I found through all the PDAs the only two characters to be confirmed dead were Parvan and Sam (and it implies a few other nameless crew members died from the ice worms) but parvan died due to sam’s quite frankly miserable failure to cave in the Frozen leviathan.
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The Leviathan was built as the Vaterland for Germany’s Hamburg-American Line. The ship had crossed the Atlantic only seven times when war broke out in Europe in 1914. She was laid up for safekeeping at her pier in Hoboken, New Jersey, but when the United States entered World War I in 1917, the American government seized the Vaterland and converted her into a troopship.
Feb 18, 2014 · 1 Answer. Sorted by: 4. If memory serves, the vodka was infected on purpose by the Russians so they could see what happened to the crew. As for disinfecting, I'm no biologist but I believe that viruses can survive under some harsh conditions that would kill most bacteria. Share. Improve this answer. answered Jun 21, 2012 at 22:22. David Harkness.
Over the following days, hundreds of the men who came over on the Leviathan died. Out of the 57th Infantry alone, 123 died at Kerhuon Hospital, 40 at Base Hospital Number 23 and several at Naval Hospital Number 5 and the hospital at Landernau.
