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          BArch, RM 3/3021 · File · 1907
          Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

          Contains among other things: S. M. S. 'Panther': Key West, Port Limon, Bluefields, Nassau, Inagua, Santiago de Cuba, Kingston; Havana, St. Thomas, Port-au-Prince, Vera Cruz, Coatzacoaleos, Colon (map of Panama Canal) Puerto Colombia S. M. S. 'Stosch': La Valetta, Barcelona, Naples, Palermo, Cadiz, Ferrol S. M.S. 'Loreley': Constantinople, Piraeus, Syria, Egypt, Rhodes, Smyrna, Therapia, Thessos, Thessos, Thessaloniki, Athos S.M.S. 'Stein': New Orleans, San Juan de Puertorico, Kingston, Havana, Bermuda, Horta, Nieuwendiep, Stockholm S.M.S. "Charlotte": Volo, Smyrna, Alexandria, Kartagena, Arosa Bay, Beirut, Messina, Naples, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Gothenburg S. M. S. "Bremen": Puerto Cortez, Livingston, Galveston, Savannah, Pensacola, Tampa, Jacksonville, Kingston, Newport News, Hampton, Boston, Newport, St. Thomas S.M.S. "Planet": Amboina, New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, Simpson Port, Nusan Jap, Palau Islands S.M.S. "Condor": Palaus, West Caroline, Mariana Islands, Apia, Samoa, Ellice, Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Ponape, Nouméa, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland S. M. S. "Falcon": Chile, Brazil, Las Palmas, Lisbon, Montevideo, Dakar S. M. S. "Sparrowhawk": Lome. Monrovia, Freetown, Dakar, Bissao, Boloma, Sekondi, Cameroon, Port Bouét, Togo, Duala, Cape Town, Lobito Bay, South West Africa, Lüderitz Bay Squadron of Cruisers: Korea, South Journey (Yangtze Unrest) S. M. S. "Planet": Manila, Hong Kong S. M. S. Buzzard: Port Elisabeth, East London S. M. S. Borussia: Port Said S. M. S. Roon: Hampton

          German Imperial Naval Office
          BArch, RM 3/3030 · File · 1911
          Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

          Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Freya": Tenerife, Southampton S. M. S. "Bremen": Valparaiso,Coronel, Punta Arenas, Panama, Bahia, Blanca, Pernambuco, St. Lucia, St. Lucia, St. Lucia Thomas, Montreal, Halifax, Charlottetown, Rio de Janeiro, Baltimore, Newport News S. M. S. "Sea Eagle": Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Durban, Port Victoria S. M. S. "Gneisenau": Bombay, Cochin, Colombo, Diamond Harbour S. M. S. "Jaguar": Hankau (riots) S. M. S. "Loreley": Trieste, Constantinople, Eastern Mediterranean S. M. S. "Condor": Auckland, Brisbane, Samoa Cruise Wing: China, Japan S. M. S. "Von der Tann": St. M. S. "Loreley": Trieste, Constantinople, Eastern Mediterranean S. M. S. "Condor": Auckland, Brisbane, Samoa Cruise Wing: China, Japan S. M. S. "Von der Tann": St. M. S. "Von der Tann": St. M. S. "St. Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia Blanca, Itajahy, Blumenau, Buenos Aires S. M. S. "Panther": Southwest Africa, Cape Town, Monrovia S. M. S. "Nuremberg": Truk S. M. S. "Sperber": Dar es Salaam, Alexandria, Palermo, Cadiz, Torquay S. M. S. "Emden": Ponape S. M. S. "Eber": Freetown, Bathurst, Las Palmas, Santa Cruz, Cadiz, Casablanca, Dakar, Conakry S. M. S. "Iltis": Canton (riots), Shanghai S. M. S. "Geier": Cadiz, Palermo, Port Said, Aden, Port Victoria S. M. S. "Cormoran": Matupi, Brisbane, Sydney S. M. S. "Planet": Brisbane, Samarai S. M. S. "Seagull": Ferrol, Cadiz S. M. S. "Hansa": Edinburh, Norway S. M. S. "Hertha": Stockholm, Norway S. M. S. "Vineta": Norway S.M.S. "Lynx": Hong Kong S.M.S. "Scharnhost": Hong Kong, Saigon, Singapore, Batavia Brochures about school in Hampton

          German Imperial Naval Office
          log

          Bd. 1: Themse, Wilhelmshaven Bd. 2: La Valetta, Alexandrien, Port Said, Mytilene, Smyrna, Korfu Bd. 3: Korfu, Smyrna, Syrakus, Neapel, Gibraltar, Lissabon, Plymouth, Kattegat, Kiel Bd. 4: Kiautschou, Tsingtau Bd. 5: Kiautschou, Tsingtau, Nagasaki Bd. 6: Nagasaki, Formosa, Manila Bd. 7: Hongkong, Amoy, Kowloon

          Letters from Gard'ner of Shanghai, Reith of Hankow, Smith of Hong Kong, Cameron and G.W. Butt of London and Brüssel of Hamburg all of the HSBC, and copy letters of Addis to Smith and Cameron with local banking and personal news, details of Addis' visit to the HSBC, Hamburg, and comments on opening a HSBC branch in Tsingtau, a proposed Japanese loan and commission on transferred bills.

          BArch, RM 3/6721 · File · 1907-1909
          Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

          Contains among other things: Visit of a Reichstag delegation in Tsingtau Reports on trips to Tsinafu, Shanghai, Hong Kong Governor's trip to Japan and Manchuria Damage to the quay wall at the shipyard area by Japanese steamship "Tateyama-Maru" in March 1907

          German Imperial Naval Office
          RMG 2.162 · File · 1907-1921
          Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

          Curriculum vitae, application and health certificate, 1907; correspondence about Glitz' training as a boatman, 1908; certificate about the qualification for coastal navigation, 1908; instruction for Gustav Glitz, 1908; letters and reports from Hong Kong and New Guinea, 1908-1911; "Sketch of the old steam engine" and boiler, scale 1:10, 1908; employment certificate, 1921

          Rhenish Missionary Society
          FO 383/72 · Item · 1915
          Part of The National Archives

          Germany: Prisoners, including: Letters from USA to German soldiers addressed to Northern France. Contraband: suspicious consignments to Amsterdam by Dutch vessel SS Danae. Rent owing on a premises lately occupied by an interned alien enemy: enquiry from William Whiteley Ltd, auction, land and estate offices, of London, on behalf of a client. Gold souvenir medals ordered from England by Mr A M L Betts, British subject interned at Ruhleben: arrangements for transmission via US Embassy, Berlin. Badges or medals for Ruhleben prisoners: resolution passed by 3,000 camp members against allocation of relief funds to purchase of medals. Present for commandant, Blankenburg camp, Berlin: request from Mrs Gordon for permission to send the commandant an inscribed gold pencil case as a mark of appreciation for kindness shown to her husband Colonel Gordon VC, prisoner at camp. Pay and treatment of German officer interned in UK: Dr Werdin, assistant surgeon of the German Army. Pay of officer prisoners of war in Germany: enquiries from Mrs Lucy B Jackson of Kemerton, Gloucestershire, in respect of her husband Colonel Jackson. Johannes Buschmann, German subject interned at Knockaloe camp, Isle of Man: request for release as only 16 years old, and for compensation to pay passage to USA. Mr M Bettenstadt, deported from England: history of his case; report that German Consul at Vlissingen will not recognise him as a German subject; request that he may be recalled to England; decision of UK authorities that deportation order cannot be withdrawn; petitions for reconsideration of decision. Moravian missionaries in South Africa: comments on statement in Dutch newspaper that all missionaries of the Moravian Brotherhood in South Africa had been ordered to prepare to be interned. British Red Cross and Order of St John: enquiries on behalf of Mrs Plunkett, wife of paralysed husband living at Hanover, and Mrs Morris in respect of her son, C V Morris, interned at Ruhleben. Exchange of German notes for English money: request from wife of English employee of James Keiller

          RMG 742 · File · 1930-1945
          Part of Archive and Museum Foundation of the VEM (Archivtektonik)

          Correspondence on the work of the sisters, especially with Frau von Oertzen and Fräulein von Bülow, Rostock; extract from the deputation protocol of June 30, 1930; supplement to the contract for the DFMGB sisters within the Rhine. Mission, 1930; Report from Hong Kong by Sister E. Goldacker, 1938; Monthly Reports of the DFMGB from Rostock, 1944: March, April, August 1945: January, March, April, November

          Rhenish Missionary Society
          BArch, RM 12-II/217 · File · 9. Febr. - 5. Okt. 1939
          Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

          Contains among other things: Turkey; Philippine question; English-French conference in Singapore; Hong Kong; Russian pact; England; Japan; Yemen; expansion of Mers-el-Kebir; visit of the Prince Regent of Yugoslavia to Rome; talks with foreign naval attachés; military measures by France; Spain; war economy and military measures in Albania and Greece; Cameroon

          ADM 137/12/4 · Item · 1914
          Part of The National Archives

          Folio 191: telegram from Admiralty to Commander-in-Chief East Indies 18th August 1914 - Marmaris reported at Basrah with steam up. Order [HMS] Odin to watch her closely and to be prepared to engage her on receipt of orders. Folio 192: telegram from Viceroy to India Office 18th August 1914 - 9 battalions Native Infantry ready to start 20th and 21st August 1914. We are consulting Naval Commander-in-Chief to escort. Folio 198: telegram from Admiralty to Commander-in-Chief East Indies 19th August 1914 - Transport Ballarat conveying officers etc for India left 18th August due Bombay about 11th September. Folio 201: telegram from Admiralty to Commander-in-Chief East Indies, Bombay 19th August 1914 - Admiralty are informing War Office and India Office that naval escort will be ready 20th August for Egyptian and East African convoy. Important no delay. Folio 202: telegram from Aden to Admiralty 19th August 1914 - Zanzibar - Seychelles and Seychelles - Mauritius cables interrupted, Seychelles completely cut off. Folio 203: telegram from Commander-in-Chief East Indies, Bombay to Admiralty 19th August 1914 - re changes to disposition of Squadron. Folio 210: telegram from the Viceroy to Secretary of State 19th August 1914 - the Nairung is vessel referred to in our telelgram of the 15th instant. She belongs to the Asiatic Steam Navigation Company. Her speed is ten and half knots. She is fitted with wireless telegraphy. Folio 212: telegram from Aden to Admiralty 20th August 1914 - [HMS] Duke of Edinburgh arrived. Folio 214: telegram from Colombo to Admiralty 20th August 1914 - list of German ships captured on East Indies station: Trifels, Steinturm, Reichenfels, Rappenfels, Furth, Australia, Moltkefels, Josef Agost Foherezeg. Folio 218: telegram from [HMS] Britannia, Simonstown to Admiralty 20th August 1914 - I directed Senior Naval Officer Zanzibar on 12th August to refuse to recognise Red Cross in [German ship] Tabora. It was hauled down under protest and ship captured. Folio 221: telegram from Secretary of State to Viceroy, Army Department 19th August 1914 - re request for further assistance from India. A handwritten note on the telegram from Vice Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee to the First Sea Lord, Prince Louis of Battenberg expresses concern over these demands 'without reference to the Admiralty' and points out that 'in the meantime the German cruiser Konigsberg is free to attack British trade'. Folio 223: telegram from Viceroy to Secretary of State India Office 20th August 1914 - we hope to despatch whole of leading division on 24th and 25th August 1914. Admiral reports no date earlier than 24th will suit naval arrangements. Folio 225: telegram from the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies 20th August 1914 - re providing reinforcements for the Expeditionary Force and alterations in the garrisons of defended ports abroad. Folio 226: telegram from the Under Secretary of State, India Office 20th August 1914 - re providing reinforcements for the Expeditionary Force. Folios 230-231: telegram from Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty to First Sea Lord, Prince Louis Battenburg and Vice Admiralty Sir Doveton Sturdee 20th August 1914 - re the disposition of Royal Navy ships in the Pacific. Folio 232: History Section Precis. M 15664/14. (b) Letter from Foreign Office 20th August 1914 - reference blockade by [HMS] Astraea of Dar-es-Salam, Bagamoyo and Tanga. M 15664/14. (c) Sir E.S. [Vice Admiral Sir Edmund Slade] 21st August 1914 - it is most undesirable that informal blockades should be given official prominence. Also questionable whether Captains of cruisers should agree to terms of truce. Suggest Admiralty refuse to ratify the arrangements already come to, M 15664/14. Pencil note, see M 01481/14. Folio 234: telegram from Commander-in-Chief, Simonstown to Admiralty 21st August 1914 - German steamer Zieten arrived Mozambique 19th August 1914. Reported met [German cruiser] Konigsberg near Cape Guardafui 9th August 1914 who had captured British steamer City of Winchester. Passengers and part of crew brought by German steamer Zieten to Mozambique. Telegram from Consul, Mozambique to Hall Line Liverpool 19th August 1914 – [British steamer City of] Winchester captured by Germans off Socotra. Crew Mozambique except second officer, third engineer, carpenter retained on board, all well. Folio 235: telegrams from Colombo to Admiralty 21st August 1914 - [HMS] Fox sailing 22nd August. From Director Royal Indian Marine, Bombay to Admiralty 21st August 1914 – [Royal Indian Marine ships] Dufferin, Minto arrived today Karachi. From [HMS] Black Prince, Aden to Admiralty 21st August 1914 – arrived at Aden. Folio 239: telegram from Admiralty to [HMS] Odin W/T Jask and Basra 21st August 1914 - German steamer Ekbatana at Basra. Reported to be making to block channel by sinking lightship. Folio 241: telegram from Admiralty to Commander-in-Chief, Cape and Senior Naval Officer, Zanzibar 21st August 1914 - Government of India empowered to communicate direct with Commander-in-Chief Cape as to Expeditions in Cape command. Folio 242: telegram from [HMS] Black Prince, Aden to Admiralty 21st August 1914 - no hostile armed mercantile cruisers sighted in Red Sea. German ships reported at Maesawa Channel, Persepolis, Christiana 10th [August] - Segovia, Ockenfels, Borkuon, Ostmark, Hurmfels. Austrian ships - Moravia, Ambra. [German steamer] Zeitun reported painted funnels British India Steam Navigation Company funnel bands and flying red ensign. Resident at Perim Island reports one Turkish gunboat at Hodeida and 4 Turkish gunboats at Camaran. Folio 245: telegram from Commander-in-Chief, Simla 19th August 1914 - we have selected Jodhpore Lancers for Egypt. They can be mounted on horses or camels as War Office decides. Folio 246: telegram from G.O.C. India 20th August 1914 - Sir Portab Singh urges that the Jodhpore Lancers should be sent with their horses instead of camels as he expects more trouble in equipping them and training them with camels than was first anticipated. Folio 247: telegram from Viceroy 19th August 1914 - Maharaja of Bikaner is attached to Staff of 7th Division but his camel corps goes with 9th Cavalry Brigade. Folio 251: telegram from Viceroy 14th August 1914 - the force destined for German East Africa should be alluded to as Indian Expeditionary Force B and the force destined for British East Africa as Indian Expeditionary Force C. Folio 252: telegram from India Office to War Office 21st August 1914 - it is understood battalions from India to Singapore will not now be necessary. Battalion from India to Mauritius has been warned but despatch will depend on naval situation. M 01490/14. Folio 255: telegram from A.S. [Admiral Superintendent] Malta 22nd August 1914 - [ship] Chasseur reports that Eastern Telegraph Co cable ship Cambria reports both Seychelles Island cables interrupted since 19th August. British ship City of Winchester long overdue at Suez. Captain of German ship Sudmark states German cruiser sank City of Winchester after removing passengers and crew. Folio 261: History Section Precis. M 01512/14. (c

          Diary of the squadron doctor
          BArch, RM 38/186 · File · 1899-1909
          Part of Federal Archives (Archivtektonik)

          Contains among other things: Formosa Strait, Hong Kong, Kiautschou, Kobe, Manila, Migashima, Miyadzu, Moluccas Strait, Nagasaki, Nanking, Peitaho, Saigon, Singapore, Vosung, Chimulpo, Tsintau, Ching-wantau, Taku Rhede, Chifu, Chimulpo, Yangtze, Vladivostok, Yokohama,

          Building Hong Kong
          8096 · Item · 1989
          Part of Hamburg Architecture Archive

          Photographer: Frank Fischbeck. Introduction: Jan Morris. Text and editing: Zenobia Barlow Wetzell. Hong Kong: FormAsia, 1989. 144 pages