Request For Assistance - German Postmark/Handwriting

I've run into a small problem identifying the German naval vessel from which a postcard was mailed, and I need some help trying to decipher the German handwriting in an attempt to ID the ship.

The card is a Marine Schiffspost card mailed from a German ship, but the number on the MSP cancel is poorly struck. It definitely ends in a "6" -- I think it's a "16", but it was advertised as a "36" when I bought it.




If it's a "16", it would have been mailed from the school ship SMS Charlotte while on a trip between St Petersburg and Kiel, specifically while in Kristiania (Christiania), present-day Oslo, Norway. Here's what a "16" cancel should look like:



If it's a "36", it would have been mailed from the cruiser SMS Geier while in Vera Cruz, Mexico.

I've tried to get clues as to the location from the text on the reverse, but the handwriting is a challenge for a non-native speaker. If anyone can read the text and shed some light on the answer, I'd be grateful.

It's a 16 as in the middle of the writing it says:
"Am Donnerstag geht es wieder nach Kiel, wo wir am 2. VIII. eintreffen sollen."

I am not the best in reading Sütterlin, but this could help you:
http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Les...tterlin0.htm

Thank you very much, stamperix. I see it now. I'm getting pretty good at reading typed German, but the Sütterlin script is tough unless it's very clearly written. I have to go letter by letter since I'm not fluent enough to recognize some of the words.

Here's the card on its page.

I think I see "good wishes" on the first line and "birthday" on the second line.

Haven't seen florian on SCF for a while. He's very good with suetterlin script.

Great page.

The whole text is just private about a birthday telegram and about how cheap everything is there during the travelling and how good the meal is. All from a son Walther to his parents.

Writing perpendicularly over the rest of the message when they've run out of room just makes it that much more difficult to decipher the handwriting. I recently got a German postcard where the writer did the same thing, though on the left-hand side rather than straight through the middle:




It was much easier to read the Volapük in the address and date than it was to read the German, even though my German is FAR better than my Volapük! I was eventually able to read everything on the card except for the shorthand, which I still can't decipher at all.