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yacht issue
The Yacht issue was a series of postage stamps, bearing the image of the German Kaiser's yacht, ''SMY Hohenzollern II'', that were used in all of Germany's overseas colonies. Millions of the stamps were produced and they were the principal means of postage for all German imperial overseas possessions in the years 1900–1915. German colonies at that time were Samoa, Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands, Kiautschou, Togo, Kamerun, German New Guinea, German South West Africa, and German East Africa.
==History==
The German colonies were all acquired between 1884 and 1899. They belonged to the Universal Postal Union and used the same postage rates as the mainland German Empire.〔Beach, Frederick C. & Rines, George E., eds. (1912); ''The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Volume 9''; Scientific American, NY. See (Section 22 ), "Germany – The Colonies": "The German colonies belong to the World () Postal Union. There is the same rate of postage for letters, papers, etc., sent to Germany and to each colony as within the German Empire."〕 Initially, regular Imperial stamps from the mainland were used, and only their cancellation marks would reveal their colonial usage; later, the names of the individual colonies were printed over the regular stamps before sale. In 1900, a new stamp design was released for universal use in all the colonies.
Redolent of the imperial grandeur of the Kaiser, the yacht was used as a symbol of German power and prestige. The seafaring nature of the design also underscored the new hopes of the German Empire under Wilhelm II. The Kaiser had embarked on a quest to expand worldwide and by 1898 was rapidly building his navy to compete with other world powers, particularly Great Britain.〔Meyer, G.J. (2006); ''A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918''; Delacorte, USA; ISBN 0-553-38240-3. See (p.286 ): "The German Navy was born in 1898... Wilhelm II and Tirpitz had embarked upon the building of a navy that they hoped to make as powerful as Britain's...."〕
The "Yachts" were first released in 1900 and remained the standard postal design for all German colonial mail until shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. By mid-1915 all the German colonies had surrendered to Allied forces, and with them came their postal administrations. The confiscated German stamps, virtually all of them Yachts, were stamped with new names and prices for Allied wartime use. The Yachts thus continued in service throughout the war years, unlike the Kaiser's yacht itself which was decommissioned in June 1914.
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