Saturday, 17 June 2023

8.1918 K.u.K Kriegsmarine, Donauflottille to Split





10.08.1918 postcard from K.u.K Kriegsmarine,  Donauflottille (Danube river fleet) to Spalato(Split) in Dalmatia,  Croatia. Text is in Italian language, but both sender and recipient have Croatian surnames. Mailed via Fp.299-b which served Donauflottille command and later KuK units in Romania.

Card was mailed from hospital ship Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand, ships fate was very interesting. It was build in 1853 and scrapped in 2019 . About Donauflottile you can read in many book and this year an  excellent book by Zvonimir Freivogel was published in Croatian.



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