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GERMAN FOREIGN POST OFFICES
TURKEY
NAVY SHIP POST

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Mail cancelled on board ships sailing between Germany and Turkey was cancelled with a "KAIS DEUTSCHE | MARINE SHIFFSPOST" cancel which had a number (indicating the ship carrying the mail) and the date of the cancellation. Individually numbered cancels were not always held by the same ship, if for example, a ship was in port for an extended period it would return its stamp to the main store and this might be allocated to another ship if it departed before the original stamp holder.

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The following list describes the stamp numbers that were assigned to individual ships.

No.4
SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm
Battleship
Aug 1910
No.4
Ypirange
Charterd Civil Ship
Aug & Sep 1910
No.6
SMS Victoria Luise
Large Cruiser
Dec 1910 and Nov/Dec 1913

No.8
SMS Cormoran
Small Cruiser
Jun-Jul 1909
No.11
SMS Hela
Small Cruiser
Oct to Nov 1898
No.12
SMS Moltke I
Training Ship
Dec 1900 to Nov 1903

No.12
SMS Charlotte
Training Ship
Dec 1906 to Jan 1907
No.13
SMS Weissenburg
Battleship
Aug 1910
No.13
SMS Ypirange
Chartered Civil Ship
Aug to Sep 1910

No.14
SMS Loreley
Station Yacht
Aug 1896 to Jul 1914
No.15
SMS Kaiserin Augusta
Large Cruiser
Nov 1897
No.16
SMS Charlotte
Training Ship
Oct to Nov 1901

No.18
SMS Gneisenau I
Training Ship
Nov 1899 to Jan 1900
No.19
SMS Stosch
Training Ship
Nov to Dec 1904
No.25
SMS Hansa
Large Cruiser
Nov 1909

No.29
SMS Goeben
Large Cruiser
Nov 1912 to Jun 1914
No.32
HMY Hohenzollern
Emperor's Yacht
Oct to Nov 1898
No.35
SMS Lübeck
Small Cruiser
May to Jun 1909

No.39
SMS Hertha
Large Cruiser
Oct to Nov 1898
No.41
SMS Stein
Training Ship
Oct 1902 and Jan 1905
No.46
SMS Hansa
Large Cruiser
Aug to Sep 1899

No.46
SMS Hertha
Large Cruiser
Dec 1912
No.47
SMS Straβburg
Small Cruiser
May 1913
No.52
SMS Freya
Large Cruiser
Nov 1907 and Dec 1909

No.52
SMS Vineta
Large Cruiser
Nov to Dec 1912
No.66
SMS Hamburg
Small Cruiser
May 1909
No.66
SMS Dresden
Small Cruiser
Apr to Aug 1913

No.67
SMS Geier
Small Cruiser
May 1912 to May 1913
No.69
SMS Breslau
Small Cruiser
Jan to Dec 1913


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NAVY SHIP POST
DURING The FIRST WORLD WAR

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The following list describes the stamp numbers assigned to individual ships during the First World War period 1914 to 1918.

No.14
General
Auxiliary Ship
31st Aug 1914 to May 1918
No.14
SMS Loreley
Station Yacht
May 1918 to 2nd Nov 1918
No.29
SMS Goeben
Large Cruiser
11th Aug 1914 to 27th Oct 1918

No.29
Corcovado
Auxiliary Ship
3rd to 6th Nov 1918
No.69
SMS Breslau
Small Cruiser
17th Aug 1914 to 12th Jan 1918
No.132
Torpedo Boat Flotilla
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22nd Feb to 14th Nov 1918

No.180
Submarine Semi Flotilla
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16th Apr to 24th Aug 1918


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DEUTSCHE SEEPOST
GERMAN SEAPOST

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'DEUTSCHE SEEPOST | OST-AFRIKANISCHE HAUPTLINIE'
25th May to 10th Oct 1918


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