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Hello dear shiplovers
I am new Danish member, and asking for your help....


I need informations and pictures of the passengership "König Wilhelm II, buildt 1907 i Stettin, in Vulcan Aktiengesellshft, for the German-America Linien.

I also look for "plans/drawings" ( where can I get souch, if posible ??)

I ned the material for af model, and for personaly interest for this paticular ship, because my garndfather worked on her as "matros" in 1913.
This ship had a long and changable "life" as German , and later US marine, until demolition in 1948, after 2x world war actions.

If anyone can help, I will be very happy.

best regards

"wiking" from Denmark

Hallo !


"Kaiser Wilhelm II" ???


Globus

Hello Wiking

Ist it this one? http://www.schiffe-maxim.de/Koenig_Wilhelm2.htm
and here: http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ance ... awaska.htm

venlig hilsen, Daniel

wiking hat geschrieben:Hello dear shiplovers
I am new Danish member, and asking for your help....
I need informations and pictures of the passengership "König Wilhelm II, buildt 1907 i Stettin, in Vulcan Aktiengesellshft, for the German-America Linien.
I also look for "plans/drawings" ( where can I get souch, if posible ??)
I ned the material for af model, and for personaly interest for this paticular ship, because my garndfather worked on her as "matros" in 1913.
This ship had a long and changable "life" as German , and later US marine, until demolition in 1948, after 2x world war actions.
If anyone can help, I will be very happy.
best regards
"wiking" from Denmark

Hej Flemming,
welcome on board of forum-schiff.de.

The Gjønvik-Gjenvick Archives published as follows.

Passenger List, S.S. König Wilhelm II, Hamburg-American Line, September 1909, Boulogne to Rio de Janeiro

Transcribed Passenger List for the 20 September 1909 Westbound Voyage of the Steamship König Wilhelm II of the Hamburg America Line from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Rio de Janeiro and La Plata via Southampton, Vigo and Lisbon.

A list of senior crew members as follows:

Kapitän: P. Wiehr
1. Offizier: K Hollasch
2. Offizier: J. Carstens
2. Offizier: W. Ziesemann
3. Offizier: P. Szetiger
Ingenieur: J. Eckel
Arzt: Dr. med. A, Kimmerle
Zahlmeister: A. Heitmann
2. Maschinist: E. Fischer
3 Maschinist: W. Nepker
3. Maschinist: M. Tirnau
4. Maschinist: T. Jürgensen
Elektriker: H. Schukraft
Dolmetscheri A Lardi
Obersteward: A. Bernlochner
Oberkoch L. Rieger
Obersteward-Assistent: H. Rost


Look here: http://www.gjenvick.com/PassengerLists/ ... elmII.html

On Wikipedia (US) you may find something more about the "KÖNIG WILHELM II" as USS GRANT (AP-29) since 1922 on this nice photo:



The whole story of this ship you may find here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_U._S._ ... 28AP-29%29

More here: http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ap29.txt

More photos:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202903.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202904.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202905.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202906.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202915.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202907.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202908.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202909.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202910.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202917.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202913.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/092202914.jpg

And finally a detailed photo from the aft deck of the USS GRANT showing the commissioning ceremony, 16 June 1941, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.



Hope this may assist anabling you to perform your model of grandfathers ship.

Best regards.

Peter Hartung

Sources: US Navy Photos, Public Domain

Thank´s to "Globus" (no, it is not Kaiser Wilhelm II), to Daniel and til Peter Hartung, for answers and god links.

Otherwise, I have reseeved dimensions (149,48 Länge, 16,84 Breite, 9,47-10,36 Meter Tiefe) for planing my model.

About a plan/drawing of the ship:
Do someone know if it would be posible, to get a copy of the ship drawings somewhere. Could these plans still exist, maybee, and where....?

Globus mentions the "Kaiser Wilhelm II", and I know of a very beutiful model of this ship in Deutche Museum in München.
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Model_ ... Museum.jpg

Still interested in fotos and info about the ship "König Wilhelm II" (primary as german ship)
thanks ...

Wiking

wiking hat geschrieben:(...)
About a plan/drawing of the ship:
Do someone know if it would be posible, to get a copy of the ship drawings somewhere. Could these plans still exist, maybee, and where....?
(...)
Still interested in fotos and info about the ship "König Wilhelm II" (primary as german ship)
thanks ...
Wiking

Hej, Flemming!

Vulcan Stettin was closed due to bankruptcy in 1928 and resumed shipbuilding at Hamburg under management of Howaldtswerke (Werk Ross).

May be ship plans published in this book:

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3782204 ... -1&seller=

http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/3 ... dition=all

Hope this may help.

regards Peter Hartung