The "Nürnberg" was
part of Vice-Admiral Spee's East Asia Squadron when war broke out
in August 1914. She took part in the Battle of Coronel on 1st November,
1914; a decisive German victory, in which the British armoured cruisers "Good
Hope" and "Monmouth" were sunk with the
loss of all hands. This defeat was soon avenged however, when a
month later at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, Spee's Squadron was
destroyed by a British Naval force tasked with hunting them down. The "Nürnberg" was
sunk by armoured cruiser HMS "Kent," (a sister ship of the
"Good Hope" and the "Monmoth"). Only 9 of her crew
survived to be picked up by the British ships.
(A
new "Nürnberg" was built in 1916, but can be easily
distinguished from this, the first "Nurnberg" by the uneven
height of the later ship's funnels).
ORIGINAL
POSTCARD
Type: Real
photographic, matt finish
Publisher: M.
L. Carstens, Hamburg.
Date:
circa 1910
Posted: Not
used.
In
very good condition without any creasing.
See
picture of Postage Table
at the top of the sale page.