Sammlung von 25 Ansichtskarten und 69 OPhotographien... Lot n° 281

World War I Collection of 25 postcards and 69 OPhotographs of the Imperial Navy SMS Geier in the 1st World War. Vintage, silver gelatine, mainly 9 x 14 cm. 4°. Put in art print with label residues on back (rubbed sth.). Estate of the Imperial-German machine mate Fritz Zimmermann, among others with navy passport with entries EK 1 + 2, operations on the SMS Lorraine, Scharnhorst Brummer Braunschweig Derfflinger, Geier, civil supply ticket, photo SMS Geier in the Kiel Canal, 3 AK Portsmouth, HMS Victory, map to SMS Scharnhorst in Kiel 1907. SMS Geier 1911 deployment at the East African station, 6 photos Daressalaam (among others customs station, cutter of the SMS Geier). On 2.10. the SMS Geier was sent after outbreak of the Turkish-Italian war to the Mediterranean Sea, where it arrived on 16.11. in Piraeus. It observed developments in Tripolitania and Palestine and was officially assigned to the Mediterranean station in 1912. In August 1913 the vulture replaced the Wroclaw in the blockade service off the Montenegrin coast. 14 postcards from this mission. Then the SMS Geier returned to D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a (3 photos) and remained until it was replaced by the Small Cruiser SMS Königsberg on 5 June 1914 off D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a, where it was reclassified into a cannon boat at the beginning of May. The old ship then made its way on June 12 to German New Guinea, where the SMS Condor, which was to be "replaced", had already begun its journey home in November 1913 and the remaining gunboat, the sister ship SMS Cormoran, had been in Tsingtau for a major overhaul since the end of May. At the outbreak of World War I, the SMS Geier first crossed the German South Seas. There they met with the NDL steamer Locksun (1675 BRT, Captain Gerlach), which was also sent to the cruiser squadron with supplies and had remained in the archipelago to supply the auxiliary cruisers Prince Eitel Friedrich and Cormoran left behind there