1912 OCEAN LINER,North German Lloyd Ship, SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Titanic era


1912 OCEAN LINER,North German Lloyd Ship, SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Titanic era

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1912 OCEAN LINER,North German Lloyd Ship, SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Titanic era:
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RARE VINTAGE 4 PAGE HAND-WRITTEN LETTER WRITTEN ON LETTERHEADOF THE North German Lloydship theSS Kronprinzessin Cecilie (named after the Crown Princess Cecilieof Prussia), DATED JUNE 16, 1912 (The Titanic sunk APRIL 15, 1912).Letter measures5 5/8\" X 7 3/8\" (folded). Condition is Good with general age wear and two 1 1/2 tears on the right side crease folds at opening of pages. Please email me if you have any questions.

Letter appears to be written to a doctor, perhaps from another doctor or nurse. Content of letter begins...\"Your splendid letter was received on board after we had left the harbor and was, I assure you very much appreciated. Yes, I fully realize that yourheart is in your work and that your units (?) of life energy are utilized and devoted to the best interests of your patients and that no work is too great. What is deemed essential is conducive to the spirit of devotion to one\'s calling and one\'s obligation..\" Letter goes on to mention Chicago Hospital and names of other people working there, with more compliments of good work at the hospital and best wishes to all at the hospital at the end of the letter. Signed and dated June 16, 1912.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THIS OCEAN LINER FROM WIKIPEDIA...

SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie was an ocean liner built in Stettin, Germany in 1906 for North German Lloyd that had the largest steam reciprocating machinery ever fitted to a ship.[1][2] The last of four ships part of the kaiser class, she was also the last German ship to have been built with four funnels. She marked the end of the influence North German Lloyd had had in the Atlantic. She was engaged in transatlantic service between her homeport of Bremen and New York until the outbreak of World War I.

On 4 August 1914, at sea after departing New York, she turned around and put into Bar Harbor, Maine, where she later was interned by the neutral United States. After that country entered the war in April 1917, the ship was seized and turned over to the United States Navy, and renamed USS Mount Vernon (ID-4508). While serving as a troop transport, Mount Vernon was torpedoed in September 1918. Though damaged, she was able to make port for repairs and returned to service. In 1919, after the end of the war, she was laid up until 1940, when she was scrapped at Baltimore.


1912 OCEAN LINER,North German Lloyd Ship, SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Titanic era:
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