April 5, 2024
RARE ORIGINAL 1930 GERMAN SHIP CHINA JAPAN SILK BANNER
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Banner is made of silk and measures 49 x 42 cm.This is an original banner, not a reproduction. Very Rare Item !!! The banner shows the German Ship "SS Columbus" sailing through 12 countries including England, France, Holland, Spain, Austria, USA, Turkey, Empire of Japan, China Republic in 1930 to 1931. The Columbus, laid down before the start of World War I, was originally to be named Hindenburg. However, her then-sister, originally named Columbus, was handed over to the White Star Line after the war as part of reparations in 1920. The Allies allowed the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), her owners, to keep the remaining ship. NDL decided to give her the name of her departed sister.At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Columbus was on one of these cruises when she was ordered to return to Germany at once. The Royal Navy was on the lookout for enemy ships. Putting her passengers ashore at Havana, Cuba, her captain and crew spent two months evading the British by taking refuge in several South American ports.On 19 December the British destroyer HMS Hyperion sighted Columbus about 400 miles off the coast of Virginia. The still neutral American heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa was also in the area, and silently observed the two ships. Rather than surrender the ship, her crew scuttled her, and she burned and sank. Her passengers and crew,
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