Grubby KM/HM group Shinkel form

[Jock Auld]

Guys,

Got this last week, going back for the paperwork hopefully.

Have removed it from the horrible board it was on

Nice little Shinkel!

[Bernhard H.Holst]

Hello Jock.

Thank you for showing this.

My wife will be much pleased to see the Equator Crossing Certificate. The North German Lloyd shipping company to which this ship, the "Columbus", belonged was the company she worked for way back when.

But of course all articles are worth having and seeing here.

Bernhard H. Holst

 

 

[Jock Auld]

Bernhard,

I shall try and do a better shot of the certificate later, what a coincidence that she worked for that shipping line!  I had a google of the 'Columbus' and its fate is quiet interesting in that the crew scuttled her in the first days of the war to deny us the booty.

I hope I can get the paperwork as well and perhaps any photos that exist, I shall keep you informed.

Best Regards

[Bernhard H.Holst]

Bernhard,

I shall try and do a better shot of the certificate later, what a coincidence that she worked for that shipping line!  I had a google of the 'Columbus' and its fate is quiet interesting in that the crew scuttled her in the first days of the war to deny us the booty.

I hope I can get the paperwork as well and perhaps any photos that exist, I shall keep you informed.

Best Regards

Hello Richard.

I showed the certificate to my wife and she liked to see it. The enlargement was sufficient for her to see it and I read it to her because of her Macular Degeneration.

To add to the above I traveled to the USA on the former Escort carrier "Nabob" in 1959 belonging to the North German Lloyd line through my future wife's help. US built and in Royal Navy service in 1944 it was torpedoed in Oct.1944 and heavily damaged. Saw no further war service but repaired and sold to NGL and in use as a cargo ship with limited passengers. Captain was a former German weather observation ship's captain. While operating near Iceland he was intercepted by a US Coast Guard cutter. The captain lowered the German Navy flag and saved his crew. He was in line to take over the NGL largest liner, the SS Bremen after its overhaul ( the former French troopship "Pasteur"  on which I made two trips to and from Vietnam). My wife to be made a trial run on the new "Bremen" from Bremen to Heligoland and back.

Bernhard H. Holst

Edited October 16, 2015 by Bernhard H.Holst

[Paul R]

This is an outstanding and well loved group.  I agree- I love the line crossing certificate as well.  I was able to get my Shellback certificate while on board the CGC BERTHOLF back in 2012.  It was a memorial event.  

[Jock Auld]

This today with the Columbus link.