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2 unusual facts about Kiel Week


Schleswig station

Rail service on this route are substantially enhanced during the Kiel Week sailing event, so that locomotive-hauled trains are also operated.

Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet

In June 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War his squadron visited the German naval port of Kiel, during the annual regatta attended by Kaiser Wilhelm II and senior German admirals.



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