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Im Bereich des Frauenkonzentrationslagers Ravensbrück stehen einige dieser Häuser und auf Tafeln ist zu lesen, dass es sich bei ihnen um Wohnhäuser hoher SS-Offiziere handelt.
In Ravensbrück wurden etwa 28.000 Frauen, Kinder und Männer ermordert. Insgesamt gab es etwa 46.100 weibliche und über 7.800 männliche Häftlinge. Als Untäter dienten den Faschisten etwa 1000 SS-Leute und 500 Aufseherinnen.
S.S. STARIY BOLSHEVIK (U.S. S. R. Merchant Cargo Ship, 1933-1970?)
Caption: The Soviet Cargo Ship STARIY BOLSHEVIK docked at San Francisco, California, during World War II. Note what appear to be livestock pens on the main deck. STARIY BOLSHEVIK was carried in registers until 1974, although a new Soviet ship of the same name was delivered in 1970.
The bulk ore carrier pictured in the early 1960s. The ship was built in 1952/3 by Lithgows Ltd. of Port Glasgow, first registered in Greenock and scrapped in Bilbao in 1969.
Scanned from a little print in my collection.
2,0 Litre
6 In-line
110 cv
800 kg
Interclassics Brussels 2025
Brussels Expo
Brussel - Bruxelles - Brussels
Belgium
November 2025
Our local shipwreck, SS Nornen, on the coast of the Severn Estuary at Berrow, Somerset. It came to rest here during March of 1897, over 117 years ago!
The variation in height between the low & high tides in the Severn estuary is the second highest in the world, hence it is extremely difficult to find the point when the waves are lapping around the wreck. However I ventured out in hope that I had my timings were correct, even though the weather conditions were very poor to say the least. The main problem I had was that, as the tide was receeding, it left the sand extremely soft & boggy. This meant my tripod was sinking in the sand whilst attempting a long exposure. I will return on a sunnier day, but having come home very wet & muddy (as well as hungry) I decided to post my image so that my efforts were not in vain :-)
The fifth SS Rotterdam, known as "The Grande Dame", was launched by Queen Juliana in a gala ceremony on 13 September 1958, and completed the following summer. The Rotterdam was the last great Dutch "ship of state", employing the finest artisans from the Netherlands in her construction and fitting out process. Her career spanned forty-one years. She sailed from 1959 until her final retirement in September 2000.
Originally she was conceived as a running mate to the popular Nieuw Amsterdam launched in 1937, but work was put on hold at the outbreak of World War II in Europe. When economic conditions once again became favorable for completion of the new ship in early 1954, the beginning of the end of ocean liners as basic transport was visible on the horizon. The designers took this in mind and created a groundbreaking vessel, a two class, horizontally divided ship with movable partitions and a unique double staircase allowing for easy conversion to cruising. The christening and launch on September 13, 1958 by Queen Juliana was a huge crowd puller, with tens of thousands on both banks of the river. Rotterdam's machinery was shifted aft, to the now-traditional two thirds aft position, and in lieu of a funnel twin uptake pipes were fitted. To provide balance, a large deckhouse was built atop the superstructure in the midships position of a typical funnel. While very controversial at the time, her appearance became groundbreaking, and her unique design features can be found on cruise ships today.
Hartmann 4588, 1924
Opname gemaakt tussen 1924 en 1926 toen de locs een verbouwing ondergingen waarbij onder andere de enkele schoorsteen werd vervangen door een dubbele. Bij de PNKA reed deze loc onder het nummer DD5206. Deze serie deed dienst tot begin jaren zeventig.
Locatie wellicht Banjar.
The last remaining White Star Line vessel, SS Nomadic, has been restored to her original glory and is back home in historic Hamilton Dock, near Titanic Belfast. Come on board and experience over 100 years of authentic maritime and social history.
SS Nomadic opened to the public on 1 June 2013. The boat, which once ferried first and second class passengers to Titanic from Cherbourg, was designed by Titanic's designer Thomas Andrews, and built at the Harland & Wolff Shipyard beneath the giant profiles of RMS Titanic and Olympic.
She sailed out of Belfast Lough on the same day as Olympic to begin her working career. On 10 April 1912, Nomadic took 142 passengers from Cherbourg Port to join Titanic on her maiden voyage. On board, passengers included Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and his celebrated fashion designer wife, Lucille, American socialite Molly Brown and wealthy industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim.
Nomadic would go on to serve Olympic and other ships during her long and successful career. She carried famous passengers including Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie.
After an eventful life, Nomadic returned to Belfast in 2006.
Now fully restored, she is open for visitors to follow in the footsteps of Titanic’s first class passengers. View an on-board exhibition of life in Belfast during the Titanic era
Taken in Quartzsite, Arizona, where I attended a gem show with cobalt123 and my son Colin. I spent some time viewing old military artifacts being sold by a vendor, and this German World War II helmet caught my attention. I was told the story behind it, and learned that the helmet's owner did not survive the war; in fact, he was killed while participating in a bayonet charge shortly before V-E Day. Apparently the Allies, by that time, were giving no quarter to members of the SS. I am assuming this is a relic of the Waffen SS, but anyone viewing this who is more familiar than I am with SS insignia and uniforms is invited to shed additional light on the subject.
I hesitated for several weeks to post this image, basically for the same reason Eisehnower refused to shake hands with, or show other common courtesies toward, any German officer. In my thinking, the SS embodied evil of a truly monstrous stripe, which I do not wish to celebrate either in my photostream or elsewhere. But what the SS did is nevertheless a fact of history, and ultimately my interest in history is what persuaded me to include this image here.
Observación 10. Fashion Week Pucela SS.
La moda que prevalece desde hace 40 años intenta vestir a las mujeres desvistiéndolas. Se asomaron primero las piernas, luego hombros y tetas, después ombligos, riñones, cráneos pelados y ahora se añaden elementos impactantes como piercings y tatuajes. Más metales y siliconas ocultos bajo la piel.
Ahora parece que la masculinidad no está reñida con el erotismo, es menos importante la imagen de poder que el culto al cuerpazo. Se ha descubierto que debajo de la corbata y de la americana los hombres ocultan pectorales.
Mario Testino, Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon han modelado en sales de plata el ideal de mujer vestida o desnuda, el modelo a imitar o a conseguir por su belleza, fuerza y capacidad de seducción.
Es fácil deducir que la Fashion Week Pucela SS es una vuelta atrás. Moda retro, anterior al gótico, al románico. Es una vuelta a las catacumbas.
Por más que a las procesiones te pongas la minifalda, como decía Manolo Escobar.
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The SS Badger backs into the dock at Manitowoc, WI.
Photographed using a Sony Alpha A7R using a Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 lens.
These things are really cool in person. And apparently someone only an hour away from where I live owns this!
This image is more about the story of the SS Atlantic, a White Star Liner that sank off of Nova Scotia, click on the link to learn more about the story.
Having first set sail in 1890, the SS Robin now sits on a specially built floating pontoon to preserve it for future generations. It is one of the last remaining complete steam ship from the Victorian era, still with its original engine and boiler. It is seen here beside the derelict Millennium Mills in the Royal Docks, London.
Showing the SS Baikal in the act of breaking ice on lake Baikal, Central Siberia
The icebreaking steamer 'Baikal' was built at Walker in 1896. These photographs show it in action on Lake Baikal.
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Photo of SS Marine Fox arriving at unknow port in 1946 as part of Operation Magic Carpet. The Marine Fox was a US Marine Commission Type C4 ship which was configured as a C4-S-B2 troop transport. It was built by the Sun shipyards of Chester, Pennsylvania as Hull #347 and was delivered on 20 Feb, 1945 and was converted to a container ship in 1961 and scrapped in 1980. This is image 16 of at least 16, no credit for photographer or publisher but US Army photo
The SS Ameican Valor has been on long term lay up in Toledo.
Photographed using a Nikkor 400mm f/5.6 lens on a Sony A7R.
Otto Skorzeny joined the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler as an officer-cadet in 1939. In 1940 he was promoted to Obersturmführer in the Waffen-SS and went to war in Russia with the 2.SS-Panzer Division Das Reich and subsequently fought in several battles on the Eastern Front.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's commando leader in WWII, became known to the world in September 1943, for his key role in the daring airborne raid to rescue the ousted Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. It was Skorzeny's 1st success as a commando leader. With the successes that followed, allied media began calling Skorzeny "The most dangerous man in Europe".
Skorzeny surrendered on 16 May 1945, feeling that he could be useful to the Americans in the forthcoming Cold War. In 1948 he escaped from the camp with the help of three former SS officers dressed in US Military Police uniforms. Skorzeny afterwards maintained that the US authorities had aided his escape, and had supplied the uniforms.
In 1953 Skorzeny was sent to Egypt by former Wehrmacht General Reinhard Gehlen, who was now working for the CIA, to act as General Mohammed Naguib´s military advisor. Skorzeny recruited a staff made up of former Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht officers to train the Egyptian army. Several Palestinian refugees also received commando training. One of these Palestinians was Yasser Arafat.
As the years went by, Skorzeny and his network gained enormous influence in Europe and Latin America, Skorzeny travelling between Franquist Spain and Argentina, where he acted as an advisor to President Juan Perón.
Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in 1945. Commons: Bundesarchiv.
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SS Great Britain in dry dock at Bristol in 2005.
History
Name:SS Great Britain
Owner:Great Western Steamship Company
Builder:William Patterson
Cost:
Projected: £70,000
Actual: £117,000
Laid down:July 1839
Launched:19 July 1843
Completed:1845
Maiden voyage:26 July 1845
In service:1845–1886
Homeport:Bristol, England
General characteristics
Type:Passenger steamship
Displacement:3,674 tons load draught
Length:322 ft (98 m)
Beam:50 ft 6 in (15.39 m)
Draught:16 ft (4.9 m)[1]
Installed power:2 × twin 88-inch (220 cm) cylinder, 6 ft (1.8 m) stroke, 500 hp (370 kW), 18 rpm inclined direct-acting steam engines
Propulsion:Single screw propeller
Sail plan:
Original: Five schooner-rigged and one square-rigged mast
After 1853: Three square-rigged masts
Speed:10 to 11 knots (19 to 20 km/h; 12 to 13 mph)
Capacity:
360 passengers, later increased to 730
1,200 tons of cargo
Complement:130 officers and crew (as completed)
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, which was advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship. She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic, which she did in 1845, in the time of 14 days.
The ship is 322 ft (98 m) in length and has a 3,400-ton displacement. She was powered by two inclined 2 cylinder engines of the direct-acting type, with twin 88 in (220 cm) bore, 6-foot (1.8 m) stroke cylinders. She was also provided with secondary sail power. The four decks provided accommodation for a crew of 120, plus 360 passengers who were provided with cabins and dining and promenade saloons.
When launched in 1843, Great Britain was by far the largest vessel afloat. However, her protracted construction and high cost had left her owners in a difficult financial position, and they were forced out of business in 1846 having spent all their funds re-floating the ship after she was run aground at Dundrum Bay after a navigational error. In 1852 she was sold for salvage and repaired. Great Britain carried thousands of immigrants to Australia from 1852 until converted to sail in 1881. Three years later, she was retired to the Falkland Islands where she was used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk until scuttled in 1937.[2]
In 1970, following a cash donation by Sir Jack Hayward that paid for the vessel to be towed back to the UK, Great Britain was returned to the Bristol dry dock where she was built. Now listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, she is an award-winning visitor attraction and museum ship in Bristol Harbour, with between 150,000 and 200,000 visitors annually.
Holland (SS-01), at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD., circa 1901-1902. The crew on deck are, L to R: Harry Wahab, chief gunner's mate Kane, Richard O. Williams, chief electrician, Chief Gunner Owen Hill, commanding Igoe Michael Malone; Barnett Bowie, Simpson, chief machinist mate, and Rhinelander.
The two vessels on the right are monitors. The inboard vessel has only one turret and is probably one of 3 monitors: Arkansas (M-7), Nevada(M-8) or Florida (M-9). The outboard 2 turreted monitor is also one of 3 probables Amphitrite (BM-2), Terror (M-4) or Miantonomah (BM-5).
SS United States is a retired ocean liner built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, retaining the Blue Riband for the highest average speed since her maiden voyage in 1952, a title she still holds. The ship was designed by American naval architect William Francis Gibbs and could have been converted into a troopship if required by the Navy in time of war. The ship served as an icon for the nation, transporting numerous celebrities throughout her career between 1952 and 1969. Her design included innovations in steam propulsion, hull form, fire safety, and damage control. Despite her great speed, by the mid 1960s her passenger numbers began to decline as air travel between the US and Europe became more popular.
"SS Keewatin is a passenger liner that once sailed between Port Arthur / Fort William (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior and Port McNicoll on Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) in Ontario, Canada. She carried passengers between these ports for the Canadian Pacific Railway's Great Lakes Steamship Service. Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Scotland as Hull No. 453, the Keewatin was launched 6 July 1907 and entered service in the following year. She ran continuously for almost 60 seasons, being retired in 1966.
In August 2011 it was announced that the vessel had been sold to Skyline International Developments Inc.and was moved back to its home port of Port McNicoll, Ontario, on June 23, 2012, for restoration and permanent display as a maritime museum and event facility"
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Before there was the MV Monte Rosa, there was the SS Monte Rosa, also a Hamburg-Süd ship. Several photos of the vessel hang in the Officers' Lounge of her namesake.
Here's her story:
SS Monte Rosa, was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched in Germany in 1930. During the 1930s, she operated as a German cruise ship under the name Monte Rosa. During World War II, she was operated by the German navy as a troopship. She was acquired by the United Kingdom as a prize of war at the end of the war and renamed Empire Windrush. In British service, she continued to be used mainly as a troopship until March 1954, when the vessel caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crew.
Empire Windrush is best remembered today for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, carrying 492 passengers and one stowaway on a voyage from Jamaica to London in 1948.
British Caribbean people who came to the United Kingdom in the period after World War II are sometimes referred to as the Windrush generation.
[The] SS Monte Rosa was the last of five almost-identical Monte-class passenger ships that were built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg between 1924 and 1931 for Hamburg Süd (Hamburg South American Steam Shipping Company).
During the 1920s, Hamburg Süd believed there would be a lucrative business in carrying German immigrants to South America and the first two ships were built for that purpose, passenger accommodation was single-class, with space for 1150 in cabins and 1350 in dormitories.
In the event, the immigrant trade never materialized and the two ships were re-purposed as cruise ships, operating in Northern European waters, the Mediterranean and around South America.
This proved to be a great success. Until then, cruise holidays had been the preserve of the rich.
But by providing modestly-priced cruises, Hamburg Süd was able to profitably cater to a large new clientele.
Another ship was commissioned to cater for the demand – the MV Monte Cervantes. However she struck an uncharted rock and sank after only two years in service.
Despite this, Hamburg Süd remained confident in the design and quickly ordered two more ships, the MV Monte Pascoal and the MV Monte Rosa; Monte Rosa was launched on 4 December 1930.
Monte Rosa was 500 ft 3 in (152.48 m) long, with a beam of 65 ft 7 in (19.99 m). She had a depth of 37 ft 8 in (11.48 m).
The ship was assessed at 13,882 GRT, 7,788 NRT The five Monte-class vessels were diesel-powered motor ships, with four 1,436 nhp four-stroke diesel engines driving two propellers. At the time, the use of diesel engines was highly unusual in ships of this size, which would have been typically steam-powered, and their use reflected the experience Blohm & Voss had gained by building Diesel-powered U-boats during World War 1.
Their top speed was 14 knots (26 km/h) (around half the speed of the large trans-Atlantic ocean liners of the era) but this was considered adequate for both the immigrant and cruise business.
The Monte Rosa, was delivered to Hamburg Süd in 1931, which operated her as a cruise ship, traveling to Norway, the United Kingdom and the Mediterranean.
After the Nazi regime came to power in Germany in 1933, she was operated as part of the Strength Through Joy programme, which provided leisure activities and cheap holidays as a means of promoting the party's ideology.
She ran aground off Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, on 23 July 1934, but was refloated the next day.
At the start of World War II, Monte Rosa was allocated for military use. She was used as a barracks ship at Stettin, then as a troopship for the invasion of Norway in April 1940.
She was later used as an accommodation and recreational ship attached to the battleship Tirpitz, stationed in the north of Norway, from where Tirpitz and her flotilla attacked the Allied convoys en route to Russia.
In November 1942, she was one of several ships used for the deportation of Norwegian Jewish people, carrying a total of 46 people from Norway to Denmark, including the Polish-Norwegian businessman and humanitarian Moritz Rabinowitz. Of the 46 deportees carried on Monte Rosa, all but two died in Auschwitz concentration camp.
At the end of March 1944, Monte Rosa was attacked by Royal Air Force Bristol Beaufighters, of 144 Squadron and 404 Squadron. The attack was mounted for the explicit purpose of sinking her after British Intelligence had obtained details of the ship's movements.
The RAF crews claimed two torpedo hits and eight hits with RP-3 rockets.
In June 1944, members of the Norwegian resistance movement attempted, but failed to sink her by attaching Limpet mines to her hull.
Later in 1944, Monte Rosa served in the Baltic Sea, rescuing Germans trapped in Latvia, East Prussia and Danzig by the advance of the Red Army. In May 1945, she was captured by advancing British forces at Kiel and taken as a prize of war.
In 1946, Monte Rosa was assigned to the British Ministry of Transport and converted into a troopship. By this time, she was the only survivor of the five Monte-class ships.
Monte Rosa was renamed HMT Empire Windrush on 21 January 1947, for use on the Southampton-Gibraltar-Suez-Aden-Colombo-Singapore-Hong Kong route, with voyages extended to Kure in Japan after the start of the Korean War. The vessel was operated for the British Government by the New Zealand Shipping Company, and made one voyage only to the Caribbean before resuming normal trooping voyages.
The new name was one of a series of ship names used by the British government for the vessels that were acquired or chartered for the carriage of troops. Many of these ships were second-hand (like Empire Windrush), and were renamed when bought. The names were "Empire" followed by the name of a British river; in this case the River Windrush, a minor tributary of the Thames, flowing from the Cotswold Hills towards Oxford.
In 1948, Empire Windrush, which was en route from Australia to England via the Atlantic, docked in Kingston, Jamaica, to pick servicemen who were on leave. The British Nationality Act 1948 had just been passed, giving the status of citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC status) to all British subjects connected with the United Kingdom or a British colony.
Prior to 1962, the UK had no immigration control for CUKCs, who could settle indefinitely in the UK without restrictions.
The ship was far from full, and so an opportunistic advertisement was placed in a Jamaican newspaper offering cheap transport on the ship for anybody who wanted to come and work in the UK.
Many former servicemen took this opportunity to return to Britain with the hopes of rejoining the RAF, while others decided to make the journey just to see what England was like. The resulting group of 492 immigrants famously began a wave of migration from the Caribbean to the UK when the ship docked at the Port of Tilbury, near London, on 22 June 1948, and the name Windrush has as a result come to be used as shorthand for that migration, and by extension for the beginning of modern British multicultural society.
The arrival of the ship immediately prompted complaints from some members of parliament, but the first legislation controlling immigration was not passed until 1962.
Among the passengers was Sam Beaver King who went on to become the first black Mayor of Southwark.
There were also the calypso musicians Lord Kitchener, Lord Beginner, Lord Woodbine and Mona Baptiste, alongside 60 Polish women displaced during the Second World War.
There were several stowaways. One, Averill Wauchope, was a "25-year-old seamstress" who was discovered seven days out of Kingston. A whip-round was organised on board ship, raising £50 – enough for the fare and £4 pocket money for her. Nancy Cunard, heiress to the Cunard shipping fortune, who was on her way back from Trinidad, "took a fancy to her" and "intended looking after her".
The arrivals were temporarily housed in the Clapham South deep shelter in south-west London, less than a mile away from the Coldharbour Lane Employment Exchange in Brixton, where some of the arrivals sought work.
Many only intended to stay for a few years, and although a number returned the majority remained to settle permanently. Those born in the West Indies who settled in the UK in this migration movement over the following years are now typically referred to as the "Windrush Generation".
In May 1949, Empire Windrush was on a voyage from Gibraltar to Port Said when a fire broke out on board. Four ships were put on standby to assist if the ship had to be abandoned. Although the passengers were placed in the lifeboats, they were not launched and the ship was subsequently towed back to Gibraltar.
Windrush set off from Yokohama, Japan, in February 1954 on what proved to be her final voyage. She called at Kure and was to sail to the United Kingdom.
Her passengers including recovering wounded United Nations veterans of the Korean War, some soldiers from the Duke of Wellington's Regiment wounded at the Third Battle of the Hook in May 1953, and also military families. However, the voyage was plagued with engine breakdowns and other defects and it took 10 weeks to reach Port Said, from where the ship sailed for the last time.
An inquiry later found that an engine-room fire began after a fall of soot from the funnel fractured oil-fuel supply pipes. The subsequent explosion and fierce oil-fed fire killed four members of the engine-room crew.
The fire could not be fought because of a lack of electrical power for the water pumps because the back-up generators were also not in working order and the ship did not have a sprinkler system.
The lack of electrical power also prevented many lifeboats from being launched and the remainder were unable to accommodate all the survivors, who were mostly clad in their nightclothes.
Despite these difficulties, the only fatalities were the four crew killed in the engine room – all 1,276 passengers were saved.
The rescue vessels took them to Algiers, where they were cared for by the French Red Cross and the French Army. Assistance was given by MV Mentor, MV Socotra, SS Hemsefjell and SS Taigete. A Shackleton from 224 Squadron, Royal Air Force assisted in the rescue.
The burned-out hulk of Empire Windrush was taken in tow by the Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate HMS Enard Bay of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, 32 miles northwest of Cape Caxine. HMS Enard Bay attempted to tow the ship to Gibraltar in worsening weather, but Empire Windrush sank in the early hours of the following morning, Monday, 30 March 1954. The wreck lies at a depth of around 2,600 metres (8,500 ft).