The German Post issued a single stamp in 2009 for the 100th Anniversary of railway connection between Sassnitz and Trelleborg in Sweden.
The stamp depicts the ferry terminal at Sassnitz. The ferry on the right is the PREUSSEN and the one on the left is the DEUTSCHLAND.
Built as a ro-ro train ferry under yard No 293 by the shipyard A.G. Vulcan, Stettin-Bredow, Germany for the Kõniglicke Eisenbahndirektion, Sassnitz.
Launched 3rd April 1909 as the PREUSSEN.
Tonnage 2,849 gross, 1,090 net, 2,425 dwt., dim, 113.80 x 16.26 x 4.90m.
Powered by two 3-cyl. Triple-expansion steam engines, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 5.000 shp, twin screws with a speed of 16.5 knots.
Accommodation for 975 passengers and 16 railway carriages.
Delivered to owners in June 1909.
7th July 1909: First sailing in the service between Sassnitz and Trelleborg.
1909: Registered by the Deutsche Reichseisenbahn (German Railways).
5th August 1914: Requisitioned by the German Imperial Navy to be refitted as a minelayer for North Sea duties, but the refit was never carried out.
15th August 1914 returned to owners.
11th October 1915 again in service but only as a cargo vessel.
15th October 1915: In collision with the torpedo-boat SMS S (T) 100, which sank with the loss of 39 lives.
25th January 1924: Out of service for three weeks due to ice.
12th February 1924: Transferred to Deutsche Reichsbahn, Ges.–Reichsbahndirektion Stettin, Sassintz.
29th April 1926: The PREUSSEN was in a floating dry-dock at Stettin for an overhaul, when the Hapag cargo vessel COBRA collided with the floating dry-dock, which then listed causing the PREUSSEN to slip off her blocks.
From 1933 to 1938 she was also used by the Seedienst Ostpreussen for the service between Kiel, Swinemünde and Pillau.
10 December 1937: Stranded during a heavy snow squall after she left Rügen, Germany.
31 December 1937: Refloated and towed to Stettin for repair by the Stettiner Oderwerke.
During World War II she carried out her normal regular service except for the period from November 1944 until January 1945 when she was used by the Kriegsmarine as hospital transport.
21st October 1945: Laid up at Aarhus, Denmark.
From November 1945 until 20th March 1946 used by the Allies as a troop transport from Travemünde – Trelleborg / Lübeck – Gdynia.
23rd March 1946: Taken over by the Soviet Union and renamed in KRILJON, with homeport Odessa.
Left Lübeck for the Far East arriving at Vladivostok in May 1945 for a refit.
Thereafter used in the service between Vladivostok and Kamchatka.
Between 1957 and 1959 rebuilt by Sowkitsudostroij, Dalian.
7th July 1975: Used as floating accommodation ship in Vladivostok.
1980: Used as an accommodation ship in Vostochny where she was later broken up.
Another source states that in 1995 she was still at Vladivostok.
Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1909. http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/preussen_1909.htm
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preu%C3%9Fen_(1909)
See also the article on the Deutschland