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The Kaiserliche marine was initially formed from the navy of Prussia, the only state (in Germany) of a coastline. This force - which dated from 1853 (from The Navy Luger by Joachim Görtz and John Walter, © 1988, p. 7. Prologue). The featured collection shows some of the Kaiserliche Marine military passes from this era in a chronological pictorial of from the earliest located pass, 1889 and various passes through 1917, the penultimate year of the Kaiserliche Marine. Some of the Imperial passes have very simple sheaths or sleeves with hand written descriptions on their covers to very elaborate sleeves with multicolored designs with patent protection statements. | ||
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The above document is a Kaiserliche Marine military pass for Otto Feldten. View documents that trace the history of Otto Feldten of Crivitz of the Imperial German Kaiserliche Marine from his birth in 1877 to his serving on the S.M.S. Von der Tann in 1917. | ||
An original 1891 German Navy "Militarpass" (Identity Document) with entries to 1912, two "Seefahrtbuch" (sea voyage log books)
with entries from 1891-1900 and one 1931 Ship’s Engineer License (shown below), all to the same man. Records the career of a
ship’s engineer on numerous ships including the pre-dreadnought BEOWULF and numerous other German ships such as SAMOS and OSIRIS.
Interesting document grouping to one man with many entries.
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