German Kriegsmarine Sailors Cap Tally, Linienschiff Schleswig Holstein
This item is listed for historical interest only. It was listed on our site previously but has been sold and is no longer available for purchase.
Sold for: $45.00

Original era manufacture. Full length black silk ribbon with gold wire embroidery. SMS Schleswig-Holstein was a pre-dreadnaught class of battleship commissioned into the German Navy in 1905. During WWI she fought in the Battle of Jutland where she was struck by a shell but suffered minor damage. At wars end she was one of the few ships allowed to Germany after the Versailles Treaty, where she served as a cadet training ship. In late August 1939 Schleswig-Holstein was moored in the port ofDanzig, where on the morning of September 1 1939, she fired on Polish positions and is considered to have fired the first shots of WWII. She became a target ship for the Soviet Navy after the end of WWII.