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Where the officers got to party and where the starving prisoners (mostly conscientious objectors) got to serve them.
At Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and Museum, in Oranienburg, Germany.
The SS Wyola was a steam tug built in 1912. It was dismantled at Robb Jetty in 1970 and part of its hull remains on the beach.
SS Mary & Michael, Mistley, Essex
To me the exterior is Victorian church building at its worst and very nearly made me write it off as a no hoper but when I ventured inside I was won over by the sheer exuberant vulgarity - as I've said before I'm worried that Victoriana bad taste is luring me to the dark side.
The font is hideous, the glass execrable, the pomp and circumstance laughable, the pulpit ludicrous, the rood screen tacky, the organ quite impressive but as a whole it's all really rather nice in a sort of spine juddering way.
Furnishings wise it's somewhat dull but does have very well maintained conjoined CWGC headstones to Walter and Stanley Sargent, who died in 1916 & 1920 respectively (I assume they're brothers) which I found incredibly moving, a memorial from the old church, erected in 1748, for Thomas Osmond who was a protestant martyr burnt at the stake under Mary in June 1555 and a modern day CWGC headstone which always makes you stop and think.
SS Spartan is a railroad car ferry on Lake Michigan owned by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) from 1952 through 1979.
SS Kuring-Gai, screw steamer, double-ended ferry. 497 tons, 171.5 x 31.3 x 14.7 ft. Built in 1901 by Mort's Dock & Eng. Co. of Balmain, Sydney. Was a Manly ferry in Sydney for a number of years until being bought by Newcastle Ferries Ltd in 1928. It was abandoned in 1945 near Hexham Bridge in Newcastle.
More info at ferriesofsydney.com/kuring-gai.html
Jan. 8, 2017: Tour of the museum ship SS Lane Victory in San Pedro, CA. The ship is filled with plaques honoring ships lost in World War II.