The Kaiser class ocean liners

Dane Jensen

Dane Jensen

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Hello all, today I thought I’d show my favorite postcard set in my collection!

These cards are of the four major ocean liners built by Nord deutscher Lloyd, this is a very rare set of cards.

Kaiser Wilhelm der Große,
Kronprinz Wilhelm,
Kaiser Wilhelm II,
Kronprinzessin Cecilie,

These are my favorite ocean liners from Germany!

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(SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Große)

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(Kronprinz Wilhelm)

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(Kaiser Wilhelm II)

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(Kronprinzessin Cecilie)

(I don’t count the Deutschland/Victoria Luise as a Kaiser class because she was not produced by Nord deutscher Lloyd and was her own ship in her entirety. She is one of my favorites also, however)
 
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Great postcard set. My great-grandfather immigrated to the US on the Kronprinz Wilhelm in 1902. When the war started, it was converted to a commerce raider and enjoyed a short, but successful career (as documented in the book "The Cruise of the Kronprinz Wilhelm" by one of its officers Count Alfred von Niezychowsi). To avoid being captured by the English, she surrendered to the then neutral US. When we got involved in the war she was renamed as the USS von Steuben and pressed into duty as a troopship carrying doughboys to Europe. I had a great-uncle that went to France on her as a blacksmith in an Artillery Regiment.
 
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Slightly off topic, but speaking of the Kronprinz, I could not resist this wooden postcard of him. It is very very thin and I am amazed that it survived in such good condition.

And if anyone is interested in the small picture it was another I could not resists. A small Prussian girl being "posed" with an Artillery Pickelhaube. Has that look of "hurry up so I can play my violin." Pickelhaube.

The other picture is the 28 Regiment Von Goeben memorial in Koblenz. Where the owner of my first Pickelhaube served.
 

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Peter B said:
Slightly off topic, but speaking of the Kronprinz, I could not resist this wooden postcard of him. It is very very thin and I am amazed that it survived in such good condition.

And if anyone is interested in the small picture it was another I could not resists. A small Prussian girl being "posed" with an Artillery. Has that look of "hurry up so I can play my violin." Pickelhaube.

The other picture is the 28 Regiment Von Goeben memorial in Koblenz. Where the owner of my first Pickelhaube served.
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That is probably a little boy! I don't know why, but in that era, they would dress up little boys like girls for studio photos. We have a shot of my Great Grandpa Bandow in such a get-up. Different times!
 
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