DEUTSCHE REICHSBAHN.

Mitchell’s small drawing shows a yellow circle outlined blue, with either blue DR letters or their blue outlines. Beside it is an indistinct panel, perhaps a funnel or the national colours, apparently black above red and yellow. Rosanoski cannot determine its form from the small image.

Captioned for Sassnitz alone in 1959–60, the white flag is edged horizontally with blue-white-blue. At the hoist a blue disc carries yellow serifed DR letters, with a black-red-yellow parallelogram wing extending towards the fly; its stripes do not touch. The description calls the disc yellow-edged, but the illustration instead has a yellow ring separated from blue by white and outlined black externally. A ship photograph supports the narrow funnel bands but does not reveal the emblem; a website funnel rendering seems to join the tricolour stripes, possibly an effect of size.

Captioned from 1960 for all Reichsbahn ferries, this version replaces the tricolour wing with three yellow stripes enclosed and separated by grey holding lines.

A starboard photograph of Sassnitz shows the circle towards the front. Unlike D451, the yellow panels are not outlined and connected into one unit, and the yellow is a darker gold.