Anchor booklets. Seafaring all over the world

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Anchor booklets. Seafaring all over the world was a West German booklet series that appeared from 1954 to 1959 in 95 editions by Arthur Moewig Verlag in Munich . The former officer of the Reichsmarine Korvettenkapitän a. D. Fritz-Otto Busch . Parallel to the series, the series SOS - Fate of German Ships was published by the same publisher as early as 1953 . In contrast to SOS , the anchor issues mostly dealt with dramatic events in Anglo-American seafaring history.

Production background, equipment

Like Der Landser and other military novel series of the 1950s, the Anker books were in the context of West German rearmament and the Federal Republic's accession to NATO in 1955. Therefore, the booklets painted a positive picture of the former war opponents USA , Great Britain and the Netherlands . Why both series were discontinued in 1959 and 1960, respectively, is unknown. In contrast to the SOS series, which was republished from 1975 to 1981 with new illustrations, the Anker booklets , as far as known, were not reprinted.

Like the SOS series, the anchor booklets were also provided with photos, technical data on the themed ships and literature. The cover pictures and interior illustrations came from the marine painter Walter Zeeden, with two exceptions (booklet no. 48 and 58 by Karl Stephan, Lochham / Graefelfing) . The back of the booklet was made up of the heading " Shipping companies of the world", in which international shipping companies and the ships they operate were presented and the shipping company flag and chimney painting were reproduced in color by one shipping company.

Authors and topics

The most important authors of the series were Otto Mielke and the editor Fritz-Otto Busch. But also authors like Wilhelm Wolfslast , Dortmund, Rolf O. Becker, Garbsen or Joh. Schulz (pseudonym for Franz Kurowski, Dortmund) wrote for the ANKER booklets .

Were discussed generally serious maritime accidents , shipwrecks and naval warfare in the First and Second World War : The sinking of the RMS Titanic , the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato , the demise of the Brazilian battleship São Paulo , the ghost ship Mary Celeste or the activities of the Hanseatic Admiral Paul Beneke , the Viking or Chinese pirate . In contrast to the SOS series, the theme of colonial wars was omitted .

expenditure

  1. Otto Mielke: The death ship in the South Seas. " Ourang Medan " steamer
  2. Fritz-Otto Busch: Alarm in front of Malaya. Battleship " Prince of Wales "
  3. Otto Mielke: Course to Death. " Titanic " fast steamer
  4. Fritz-Otto Busch: A battleship disappears. Battleship " São Paulo "
  5. Otto Mielke: A giant's sacrificial journey. Battleship " Yamato "
  6. Fritz-Otto Busch: The brave radio operator. "Björkö" steamer
  7. Wilhelm Wolfslast: A tough sea bird. Paul Beneke , sea hero of the Hanseatic era
  8. Otto Mielke: A night of horror. Tank steamer "Angy"
  9. Fritz-Otto Busch: How it began - The attack on Pearl Harbor
  10. Wilhelm Wolfslast: Five weeks of death. Steamer " City of Cairo "
  11. Wilhelm Wolfslast: The Flibustier Admiral. Sir Henry Morgan
  12. Fritz-Otto Busch: submarine against aircraft carrier. US submarine " Albacore "
  13. Herbert A. Löhlein: The snake ship. Freighter "Anaconda"
  14. Otto Mielke: Drive through hell. Motor tanker "Simon Bolivar"
  15. Otto Mielke: An unsolved riddle. Brigantine " Mary Celeste "
  16. Wilhelm Wolfslast / Kurt Grager: Breakthrough to Malta. Steamer "Port Chalmers"
  17. Christian Wurzrainer: The Atlantic remained the winner. Freighter "Greenville"
  18. Wilhelm Wolfslast: The tragedy of the first giant ship. " Great Eastern " steamer
  19. Fritz-Otto Busch: Chun Lo You, the pirate. China steamer "Haiching"
  20. Otto Mielke: The grave of a thousand ships. Tankers "Leros" and " Gerd Maersk "
  21. Wilhelm Wolfslast: The shipwreck of the "Trevesa". Freight steamer "Trevesa"
  22. Otto Mielke / Wilhelm Wolfslast: 22 men against “ Tirpitz ”. English torpedo riders and micro-submarines
  23. Fritz-Otto Busch: 13 days lost. US freighter " Flying Enterprise "
  24. Wilhelm Wolfslast: A sailor of freedom. John Paul Jones
  25. Wilhelm Wolfslast: SOS - too late! American steamer " Vestris "
  26. Fritz-Otto Busch: The ship with the talisman. Battle cruiser "New Zealand"
  27. Alexander Thayer / Albert Röhr: Fire in the ship. Passenger steamer " Morro Castle "
  28. Wilhelm Wolfslast: Ship in focus. Aircraft carrier " Ark Royal "
  29. Fritz-Otto Busch: The junks of the Lai Cho San. Steamship "Gustav Diederichsen"
  30. Otto Mielke: Trapped in the net. Submarine " U 14 " ex "Curie"
  31. Wilhelm Wolfslast: Fight without hope. Light cruiser " De Ruyter "
  32. Fritz-Otto Busch: Rammed at full speed. Ferry " Duke of York "
  33. Wilhelm Wolfslast: Mutiny in the Atlantic. Canadian barque "Veronica"
  34. Fritz-Otto Busch: A brave ship. British auxiliary cruiser " Rawalpindi "
  35. Wilhelm Wolfslast: Fight in the Mediterranean, Australian destroyer "Stuart"
  36. Fritz-Otto Busch: Mines, Men and Mackerel. Auxiliary cruiser " Meteor "
  37. Otto Mielke: The Blue Ribbon of the Oceans. American express steamer " United States "
  38. Alexander Thayer: Drama on the ocean floor. English submarine " Thetis "
  39. Fritz-Otto Busch: A Queen of the Seas. British clipper " Cutty Sark "
  40. Otto Mielke: Ship without a home. Dutch flak cruiser "Jacob van Heemskerck"
  41. Fritz-Otto Busch: A Nordic dragon. The Vikings
  42. Otto Mielke: Escape to East Asia. Italian colonial cruiser " Eritrea "
  43. Rolf O. Becker: Someone has to do it! US customs cutter "Joe Lane"
  44. Harald Busch : On a Friday ... submarine " U 57 "
  45. Wilhelm Wolfslast: The night battle at Savo Island. Australian heavy cruiser " Canberra "
  46. Wilhelm Wolfslast: U-boat against U-boat. American submarine "Batfish"
  47. Otto Mielke: Onassis - Lord of the Seven Seas. Turbine tanker " Tina Onassis "
  48. Wilhelm Wolfslast: a man, a boy and eleven mutineers. Canadian full ship "Lennie"
  49. Otto Mielke: The other side. British battleship "Hercules"
  50. Alexander Thayer: Timetable after the realm of the dead. American submarine " Squalus "
  51. Otto Mielke: beginning and end of the first kuk Kriegsmarine. Austrian briggs "Oreste", "Pilade", "Eolo"
  52. Otto Mielke: Between Suez and Beirut. French passenger ship " Champollion "
  53. Wilhelm Wolfslast: From La Plata to Lake Java. British heavy cruiser " Exeter "
  54. Alexander Thayer: Sold, betrayed and lost. Spanish passenger ship "Uruguay"
  55. Otto Mielke: Struggle for the Dutch East Indies. Dutch cruiser "Tromp"
  56. Otto Mielke: A Turk took Reissaus. Turkish tank steamer "Raman"
  57. Alexander Thayer: The last night. Italian passenger steamer " Andrea Doria "
  58. Fritz Moeglich: Company "Nutshell". British canoe "Catfish"
  59. Otto Mielke: Secret order “Fleshpastry”. British submarine " Seraph "
  60. Rolf O. Becker: In the fight for freedom. US frigate " Constitution "
  61. Wilhelm Wolfslast: The boat that torpedoed itself. American submarine "Tang"
  62. Otto Mielke: Encircled in Port Arthur. Japanese destroyer "Shirakumo"
  63. Otto Mielke: The naval battle off Midway. US aircraft carrier " Yorktown "
  64. Otto Mielke: Fight with Melanesian cannibals. Austrian gunboat "Albatros"
  65. Kurt Hartig: The $ 1 Million Game. Italian freighter "Etrusco"
  66. Otto Mielke: Creeping trips through the Mediterranean. US aircraft carrier " Wasp "
  67. Otto Mielke: Tegetthoff fought at Helgoland and Lissa. Kuk tank frigate " Archduke Ferdinand Max "
  68. Otto Mielke: Outwitted the opponent. British submarine trap "Farnborough"
  69. Otto Mielke: 812 days in the arctic ice. Soviet icebreaker "Georgij Sedov"
  70. Wilhelm Wolfslast: The battle at the bear island. British destroyer " Onslow "
  71. Otto Mielke: Attack on Zeebrugge. English protected cruiser " Vindictive "
  72. Otto Mielke: coup against Porto Corsini. Kuk torpedo boat destroyer "Sniper"
  73. Otto Mielke: Oran and Toulon - France's naval graves. French battleship " Dunkerque "
  74. Wilhelm Wolfslast: Ready to ram! British destroyer " Glowworm "
  75. Ulrich Schreier: A chaplain conquered hell. US aircraft carrier " Franklin "
  76. Rolf O. Becker: diving trip to the top of the world. US nuclear submarine " Nautilus "
  77. Wilhelm Wolfslast: The Battle of Trafalgar . British ship of the line " Victory "
  78. Ferdinand Ludwig: Lepanto - Battle of the 500 galleys. Galley "Maria of Castile"
  79. Wilhelm Wolfslast: Torpedoed off Cape Town. British troop transport " Orcades "
  80. Paul Friedrich: The battle in the Hiltunghafen. Hanseatic ship "Drögbrod"
  81. Wilhelm Wolfslast: The submarine dying on the convoy HG 76. British escort vehicle "Stork"
  82. Rolf O. Becker: Normannenfahrt 1958. Norwegian dragon boat "The Vikings"
  83. Ferdinand Ludwig: Lord Exmouth fights off Algiers. British liner "Queen Charlotte"
  84. Wilhelm Wolfslast: Captain Walker's greatest success. British sloop " Starling "
  85. Rolf O. Becker: Northwest Passage. Canadian icebreaker "Labrador II"
  86. Armin Relling: Helpless in the typhoon. US destroyers "Monaghan" and " Spence "
  87. Ferdinand Ludwig: Land in sight! Columbus discovers America. Spanish caravel " Santa Maria "
  88. Gerd Kolberg: Audacity wins. British phosphate ship "Komata"
  89. Ferdinand Ludwig: Cutter in rapid fire. Fishing cutter "Heil. 7 "and" Tra. 22 "
  90. Wilhelm Wolfslast: Fighter in two world wars. British battleship " Warspite "
  91. Jochen Jörns: Drive to Hell. British four-masted barque "Dundonald"
  92. Wilhelm Wolfslast: The last battle cruiser of the Royal Navy. HMS " Hood ", " Renown ", " Repulse "
  93. Joh. Schulz: The condottiere of the sea. Andrea Doria
  94. Rolf O. Becker: The ship that lost face. Japanese research vessel " Soya "
  95. Wilhelm Wolfslast: The coup d'état on Saint-Nazaire. British destroyer " Campbeltown "

literature

  • Klaus F. Geiger : War novels in the FRG. Content and functions. Tübingen 1974, DNB 750971797 .
  • Heinz J. Galle: Folk books and book novels. Volume 1: The post-1945 boom - from Billy Jenkins to Perry Rhodan. Dieter von Reeken-Verlag, Lüneburg 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3232-2 , p. 138.
  • "Blue Boys" as "Landser" at sea - car stereotypes and enemy images in marine booklets 1953 to 2013 , in: Jens Westemeier (ed.): "So was the German soldier ..." The popular image of the Wehrmacht , Paderborn (Ferdinand Schöningh) 2019, pp. 247-266. ISBN 3-506-78770-5
  • Rüdiger von Ancken, Lars U. Scholl: The marine painter Walter Zeeden (1891-1961). Oceanum Verlag, Wiefelstede 2016, ISBN 978-3-86927-409-6 .

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