Description of series: Documents relating to the certificates and survey reports for all equipment and functioning of a vessel. History Prior/Subsequent to Transfer: "Prior to transfer-" The "Prinz Sigismund" a merchant vessel of 3302 tons gross and 1844 tons net register, arrived in Brisbane from Japan on 4/8/1914. The vessel was detained as an enemy (German) vessel on 5/8/1914 and seized 'in prize 'on 6/8/1914. After, she was brought before the Prize Court for adjudication; she was taken over from the Commonwealth Government by the Western Australian Government for trading on the coast of that state. She was renamed the 'BAMBRA'. In 1927 the "BAMBRA" was handed over to the United Kingdom Government and was subsequently sold to a Dutch firm of shipbreakers. Ordinarily the ship's papers would have been passed on to the Western Australian Government with the ship, but at the particular time this was overlooked and they remained in the custody of the Collector of Customs, Qld, until transfer to Archives. Subsequent to transfer - The documents are written in German, however it was ascertained that, in the main, the documents relate to: - Certificate of Seaworthiness, Docking Freeboard Certificate, Machine Certificate, Lloyds Test Certificate (Anchors), Government Surveyors Certificate of Measurements and Seaworthiness, General Licence for the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants, Survey Certificate.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,2 X 5,9. Description: View from the ship to the sea.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,4 X 6. Description: View of the sea.

Contains among other things: Travel reports Reports, statements about a line baptism of July 1912 Salvage of the money stock from the wreck "Kamerun" by "Panther" in Jan. 1913

photography

Note from another source: now Leviathan (America)

• description: according to inscription: Elder Dempster Steamer from Liverpool, coal extinguishing; and gunboat "Jackdaw" Gouvernements-Quai, 1904* photograph

photography

Photographer: Nüßler?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,7 X 7,9. Description: taken from the country.

• description: Port with barracks and ship* Photography

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,1 X 8,0. Description: Recorded from ship.

Photographer: Dr. Mergner. Phototype: Photo. Format: 7.9 X 5.5. Note: Negative ownership Mergner.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,9 X 5,7. Description: View over the bow of the ship to the canal.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,9 X 7,2. Description: Landscape photograph from the ship. Remark: on reverse side: Carl Thomas, Steglitz, Düppelstraße 40, film negative is enclosed.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,9 X 8,1. Description: taken from the ship. Remark: on reverse side: Carl Thomas, Steglitz, Düppelstraße 40, film negative is enclosed.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,1 X 6,0. Description: View of the sea.

• description: The picture shows a large ship resting on a quiet river. In the background you can see land with many palm trees. The sun is setting and the clouds seem to be broken up. There's a nice mood over the picture.

Contains: Rahschoner "Stralsund"; Small cruiser "Stralsund ", (photo); Small cruiser "Strasbourg", (photo) Cannon sloops "Strelasund" - "No. 36"; S.M.S. Small cruiser "Stuttgart", (photo); Torpedo boat "Taku / v.d. Lippe", (photo); speedboat escort ship "Tanga", (photo); mine ship "Tannenberg"; destroyer Z6 "Theodor Riedel", (photo); sail - frigate "Thetis"; S.M.S. small cruiser "Thetis", (photo); anti-aircraft wreath. "Thetis" (ex norw. Harald Harfagre), (photo); auxiliary cruiser (ship 10) "Thor", (photo); river gunboat "Thorn" S.M.S. liner "Thuringia", (photo); gunboat II.Kl. "Tiger"; S.M.S. Gunboat "Tiger", (photo); Torpedo boat "Tiger", (photo); Battleship "Tirpitz", (photo); Night hunting lead ship "Togo" (ex "Coronel"), (photo); Night hunting lead ship "Togo", (photo); Minesweeper "Triton"; Surveying ship "Triton" (photo); S.M.S. river gunboat "Tsingtau" speedboat escort ship "Tsingtau", (photo); supply ship "Uckermark" (ex "Altmark"); S.M.S. torpedo steamer no. IV "Ulan", (photo)

Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,2 X 6,1. Description: View from ship to the sea. Reference: Plate and cardboard no. 108 in negative box.

Contains among other things: Activity reports Distribution plans of the ships of the squadron Report on riots on Ponape of July 1910