Tannenberg

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The Tannen¬berg, built by Oderwerke at Stettin in 1935 and operated by the Hamburg-Amerika Line, principally in the Baltic. She was a twin-screw steamer of 5,504 tons with a maximum speed of 20 knots and accommodation for 2,000 passengers. In July 1941 when bound from Finland to Germany in convoy with two other vessels she ran into a Swedish minefield and was lost with her two consorts near Oland Island. She was scrapped where she lay in 1951.
SG644 Sea Breezes 8/57

[D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen]

Built in 1935 by Stettiner Oderwerke for the German Empire, managed by HAPAG.
Ferry, Gt:5504, Nt:2668, L:121,30m. B:15,50m. Draught:7,40m. turbines:12.000 hp. 2 shafts, 20 kn. pass:2000, 100 cars.
Service: Travemünde via Warnemünde, Binz and Swinemünde to Zopot, Pillau and Memel, sometimes to Kiel and Helsinki.
September '39 used as minelayer, Armament:3-15 cm. 4-3,7 mm. AA, depending on the type of mines:383-480 mines.
On 09-07-'41 South of Öland she ran into a Swedish minefield and sunk.
In '51-'52 she was scrapped there.
(Gross Deutsches Reich 1937, 12+6 pf. StG.644)