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1916 Feldpost Ship Card, In Hungarian?

 
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Posted 06/30/2019   8:05 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add GregAlex to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Here's one that has a lot going on. It's a soldier's mail free frank postal card, but it appears to have a ship cancellation from the SMS Csepel(?) along with a KuK maritime cancel. I can't discern the language of the sender, possibly Austrian or Hungarian.

Can anyone provide further analysis?



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Posted 06/30/2019   9:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add hy-brasil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's German. "Familie" in the address, for one. Perhaps someone can read the handwriting here.
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Posted 06/30/2019   11:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
"Osepel" was the name of an Austrian destroyer
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/...cle/59298919
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Posted 07/01/2019   04:42 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting news report but the ship's name really was Csepel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Csepel

Here's an overview of its class:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%...ss_destroyer
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Posted 07/01/2019   05:02 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here's a photo of her sister ship SMS Tátra in 1913:

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Posted 07/01/2019   08:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add perf12 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
On 4 May 1916, the French submarine Bernoulli torpedoed Csepel off Cattaro and blew off her stern. She was towed to port and repaired.(So the card must of been sent when the ship was in the yard).



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Posted 07/01/2019   09:00 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Nice photo perf12!

This card appears to have been postmarked before the action back in April when in harbour in Pola/Pula.
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Posted 07/01/2019   09:12 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modernstamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting. A lot of history there.
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Many thanks for the photos and background. Can anyone translate the German handwritten message?
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Posted 07/01/2019   3:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi GregAlex,

Sorry, I can't help with the message but I believe the card was sent to the Kramer family at the following address in Vienna:

Josefstädterstraße 93
Wien VIII


Today that would be:

Josefstädter Straße 93
1080 Wien

I've checked a 1916 directory and I see a couple of entries for people called Kramer in this street but I didn't see one at #93.
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