Badge for Graduates of the Imperial Submarine Officer's Training Program.
Badge for Graduates of the Imperial Submarine Officer's Training Program. P/B 1.1.64. Silver oxidized. By the firm of Eduard under his widow Varvara Dietwald, 1910-1917. Screwback. Within a circle formed from an anchor cable, a submarine superimposed on a twined anchor. Maker’s mark BД and kokoshnik “(head right) 84” on back; BД, ЭДУAPД and kokoshnik mark on screwplate. Per Russian Naval Order No. 19 dated 26 January 1909, this badge was presented to all graduates of the Tsar's Baltic Fleet submarine officer training program. Comes with copies of personal and research documents. Condition: Choice

Provenance: Awarded to Johann Kalmar. An Estonian seaman, Captain Johann Kalmar (1884-1966) graduated from the Kuressaare Maritime School in 1906 with a mate’s diploma and from the Riga Maritime School in 1909 with a master mariner’s diploma. His first command as a master was aboard the barque Sagona in 1910. He then worked for the Russian Northern Trading Company for the next four years as captain of the SS Vostok and the SS Sapad aboard which he sailed the Kara Sea. Kalmar received a Russian master mariner diploma (no. 5622) issued in St. Petersburg on April 10, 1914. With the advent of World War I, he was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Baltic Fleet as a naval officer. In 1915, he served as mate on the submarine supply ship SS Europa. In 1916, he graduated from submarine officer training school and was assigned to command the supply vessel SS Svjatitel Nikolai and then SS Oland. From the family of his grandson. (See lot 3028 for a gold medal from the same family).