Rare AK of the Wehrmacht battleship "Schlesien" with very unusual recipient address or Zustellwunsch "to Mr. ..., Leichlingen, Thursday evening at the bowling alley of the restaurant Kahs / on Dahnhof".
Whether the postman has actually delivered the letter to the bowling alley on Thursday night, but is not recorded! Clean stamp "Borkum (North Sea resort) a, 18/02/36!.
1 Technical data of Silesia
- Launched: May 28, 1906
- Commissioning: May 5, 1908
- Fate: scrapped 1949 - 1956
- Yard: Schichau shipyard of Gdansk
- Main Armament: 4 x 28 cm - 12 x 15 cm (later 6 x 10.5 cm)
- Cost: 25 million gold marks
- Manning: about 800 men
14,400 ts - 127.6 m - 22.2 m wide - 19.1 knots
2. career
The battleship "Schlesien" already took part in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. From 1918 to 1939, the ship served as a cadet training ship. At the outbreak of war against Poland, the ship took part against the Hela peninsula on the fight. After participating in the company "Weser Exercise" was the ship from 1940 to 1944 as an icebreaker, barge and ship for securing minelayer. In April 1945, the "Silesia" Gotenhafen left with about 1,000 wounded on board to relocate to Swinoujscie. In this case, the ship suffered on May 3 before Swinoujscie a mine hit and had to be set to basic. A day later, the ship was blown up at 16.00 clock. Between 1949 and 1956 the ship was wrecked.
