A quiet maritime detail in Bremerhaven: the lantern of the lightship FEHMARNBELT at the Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum.

Built in 1904/1905, the FEHMARNBELT served as a lightship for the Fehmarn Belt. Its lantern once stood on a 16-meter mast and could be seen from up to 20 kilometers away. Originally powered by gas, it was converted to electric light in 1928.

Today, this lantern is one of the last preserved parts of the ship — a small but striking reminder of North Sea and Baltic maritime history.

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1927 RMS Windsor Castle Postcard
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RMS Windsor Castle (launched 1921) served the Union-Castle Line on mail and passenger routes to South and East Africa. Requisitioned in WWII as a troopship, she was sunk by German aircraft near Algeria in 1943.
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Great Lakes Freighter Edmund Fitzgerald Postcard.
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