SMS, What does it stand for?

Christoph K · Post by **Christoph K** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 7:44 am

Hello,

I noticed that in my books on the German Navy all the ships have the prefix either DKM or SMS. I know that all ships from 1936-1945 had the prefix DKM which means Deutsche Kriegsmarine Schiff. But what does SMS stand for?

Dackelstaffel · Post by **Dackelstaffel** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 8:20 am

Hi,

You have two choices :
First SMS means short message service and the german fleet belongs to Motorola, Nokia and Vodaphone or SMS means :

Seine Majestat Schiff (His Majesty's Ship).

Christoph K · Post by **Christoph K** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 11:28 am

Thanks for the help!

bloodpet [GER] · Post by **bloodpet [GER]** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:04 am

"Seiner Majestät Schiff"
or
"Seiner Majestäts Schiff"

It's possesivum, but I don't know what the possesivum of Majestät is; wether it's Majestät oder Majestäts. It's kinda tricky with those royal titles. ;o]

Locke · Post by **Locke** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 8:56 am

Genetivum possesivum of Majestät is simply Majestät.

I had to look in the dictionary

bloodpet [GER] · Post by **bloodpet [GER]** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:26 am

thanks for looking it up. I'm to lazy to do

Locke · Post by **Locke** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:05 am

No problem

I have dictionary on my computer, so I didn't have much problems either....

Troy Tempest · Post by **Troy Tempest** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:21 am

I concur, it is Seiner Majestät Schiff

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