TANNENBERG: 5,504 grt, length over all 129.50 m; beam 15.50 m; max. 2,000 passengers;
built 1935 by Oderwerke Stetttin for German Reichsverkehrsministerium for Baltic services (Seedienst Ostpreussen);
On the right: ferry SCHWERIN: 3,133 grt; length over all 107.2 m; beam 18.5 m; max. 800 passengers, 164.4 m tracks for railcars;
built 1926 by Schichau in Elbing for Deutsche Reichsbahn, sailing between Warnemünde and Gedser;
Photo taken after 11th September 1940 in Cherbourg, showing the ships probably waiting for the invasion to England which never happened; scanned from color slide