EU_Storm_Khan

Hello Tuccy,

finally managed to get into this forum! Anyway, I said I would show you my piece of the SMS Emden and tell you about how it came to me.

As you probably already know, the Emden was wrecked in a battle with HMAS Sydney near the Cocos Islands in 1914 and was forced to ground itself there. The wreck was destroyed by the sea and left to rust there till about 1953 when it was finally broken up for scrap metal salvage by a Japanese company.

How this piece of SMS Emden came to me:

My father worked on merchant ships in the late 1940's to early 1950's as the ship's radio officer and his ship visited the Cocos Island around 1950/1951. While there he acquired a souvenir of a small machete like blade which had been taken from the wreck of Emden by the locals and fashioned into this blade. My father has since passed away and I have inherited this small piece of naval history. From which part of the ship this piece of metal came from I don't know but in all the years I have known of the blade, this thing has never acquired any rust even though it has never been cared for in any significant way.

Anyway, hope you find it interesting.

Regards,

Storm_Khan