1895 Cabinet Card Portrait of Herm Rummer Duiks, 3rd Officer of the SS Prinz Regent Luitpold
In this video we meet Herm Rummer Duiks, the 3rd Officer of the SS Prinz Regent Luitpold, who was photographed at Peels photography studio at 482 George Street in Sydney, Australia, on April 4th, 1895.
My research found very little about this fellow, but he stays with us in this albumen print mounted to a cabinet card from 1895.
Everything I know about him comes from the back of the card, where what is presumably his own handwriting identifies him, and provides the date of the portrait.
The SS Prinz Regent Luitpold was a 455 foot mail steamer built in Danzig in 1894. Researching the ship is made complicated by a later warship with a very similar name — the SMS Prinz Regent Luitpold.
According to one source, the SS Prinz Regent Luitpold was seized by Italy in World War I and renamed the Pietro Calvi. However, a search for the Pietro Calvi reveals much more history about a WWII submarine of the same name.
High Resolution Images of the Cabinet Card Portrait of Ship’s Officer Herm Rummer Duiks
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Sources and Links
Norway Heritage. “Prinzregent Luitpold.”
https://www.norwayheritage.com/gallery/gallery.asp?action=viewimage&categoryid=33&text=&imageid=1662&box=&shownew=
GG Archives. “SS Prinz Regent Luitpold Archival Collection.” https://www.ggarchives.com/OceanTravel/ImmigrantShips/PrinzRegentLuitpold.html