FREE: Nice! German Tobacco Card circa 1933

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This is a card from the German Saba Schiffbilder set circa 1931-1933.
Card features a luxury ocean liner named the SS Mariposa, which eventually became a transport ship during World War II.

I don't read German and won't pretend to know much about this card, aside from it being packaged with German cigarettes in the early 1930s. The ship, however, I do know a bit about: it was an American ocean liner built in 1931 that eventually was used to transport troops during World War II. It's first wartime voyage was bringing soldiers and supplies from Honolulu to the continental US (San Francisco) in late December 1941, just weeks after Pearl Harbor. Originally intended to sail the Pacific, it sailed several missions in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the war, logging stops everywhere from Boston and Newport News to Marseilles and Bombay. Most missions between 1941-1945 were for soldier and supply transport, as well as rescue missions to collect people stranded on foreign soil due to the war.
Card states that the SS Mariposa could carry 700 passengers, although it reportedly carried over 4000 troops at a time during wartime. It was converted back into a passenger ship in the 1950s with a capacity around 1200, and was scrapped in 1974 after a fire.

Gold foil edging is intact, card is in great, gradeable condition. Very nice card.

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