A few years ago I had a part from the Graf Zeppelin.
I purchased a large painted steel box with wooden lining. It had an engraved sign that had location , Graf Zeppelin and a code. Inside was a paper label for piston rings.
The code on the label was for a diesel engine made by MAN. I had previous contacts with the MAN archivist and they confirmed and sent me the MAN shipping documents that show the supply of these MAN engines to the shipyard and specifically the ship as Graf Zeppelin. Shipping was a few weeks befor Adolf launched her.
The engines were the generators to be used when she could not access dockside power. The label had the ships location for where these spares had to be stored.
Given it was a large box I don’t know how it came to UK. It went to Trinity Marine along with a T class dive plane controller.
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