JustinG
Active member
Greetings,
Well, this is an area that I love to collect and one of my passions in the collecting community.
As a background for information: Imperial tallies did not use umlauts, they used the "e" in place of those umlauts so say Möwe would be Moewe. Block lettering was standard for these units. For larger ships the German Navy would not state the type/class of ship if it was a named ship like Kreuzer Emden, it would be S.M.S Emden. Now, there are named individual units like S.M. Torpedoboot Taku.
During Post WW1, during the Reichsmarine period, The navy used only gold colored thread (Metalic Metallfaden, Baumwool Cotton and eventually Cellon) and eventually transitioned into the gothic fraktur script of the Third Reich.
Now there are three different script colors:
Gold Script: Seemännisches (Deck Related personnel)
Silver Script: Schiffstechnisches Technical (engineering) Administrative
Red Script: Schiffsjungen (Cadets)
Metal thread was used. Cotton thread was introduced in early 1917 so Yellow Cotton for gold and white cotton for silver.
S.M.S. is Seiner Majestäts Schiff (German for His Majesty ship)
K.u.K. (Austrian) Kaiserliche und Königliche
Hope this brief info can help you start and get your cameras ready to take some pictures and share.
Best Regards,
JustinG
Well, this is an area that I love to collect and one of my passions in the collecting community.
As a background for information: Imperial tallies did not use umlauts, they used the "e" in place of those umlauts so say Möwe would be Moewe. Block lettering was standard for these units. For larger ships the German Navy would not state the type/class of ship if it was a named ship like Kreuzer Emden, it would be S.M.S Emden. Now, there are named individual units like S.M. Torpedoboot Taku.
During Post WW1, during the Reichsmarine period, The navy used only gold colored thread (Metalic Metallfaden, Baumwool Cotton and eventually Cellon) and eventually transitioned into the gothic fraktur script of the Third Reich.
Now there are three different script colors:
Gold Script: Seemännisches (Deck Related personnel)
Silver Script: Schiffstechnisches Technical (engineering) Administrative
Red Script: Schiffsjungen (Cadets)
Metal thread was used. Cotton thread was introduced in early 1917 so Yellow Cotton for gold and white cotton for silver.
S.M.S. is Seiner Majestäts Schiff (German for His Majesty ship)
K.u.K. (Austrian) Kaiserliche und Königliche
Hope this brief info can help you start and get your cameras ready to take some pictures and share.
Best Regards,
JustinG