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The MS ''Togo'' was a German merchant ship that was launched in 1938. Requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine as ''Schiff 14'', in April 1940 she participated in the invasion of Norway; in August 1940 was converted to a minelayer as part of the German plan to invade England; then from June 1941 she began conversion to the armed auxiliary cruiser (''Hilfskreuzer'') HSK ''Coronel''. Following ''Coronel''s unsuccessful attempt in February 1943 to become the last German commerce raider of World War II, she was then used as a minesweeper (''Sperrbrecher'') before being recommissioned in late 1943 as NJL ''Togo'', a night fighter direction vessel (''Nachtjagdleitschiff''), operating in the Baltic Sea. As NJL ''Togo'', she was the second of the Kriegsmarines World War II radar ships, and the only one to survive the war.〔The first had been the NJL ''Kreta'' (ex-French ''Ile de Beauté'') which had been taken over by the Kriegsmarine in January 1943 and was rebuilt for use as a fighter direction ship. The conversion was completed in August 1943. The ship was lost on September 21, 1943 near the island of Capraia in the Tyrrhenian Sea, after being torpedoed by the British ''U''-class submarine . In September 1943, the ''Premuda'' was equipped with ''Freya''-type radar for a time in order to operate as a radar picket and fighter direction ship, but she never served in this capacity; she was recoverted into a destroyer, renamed ''TA 32'' and, based in Genoa, served in the Ligurian Sea until being scuttled on 25 April 1945.〕 After the war, ''Togo'' passed through various changes of ownership, name and function before finally being wrecked off the Mexican coast in 1984. ==Description and pre-war service== As built, ''Togo'' was , long, with a beam of and a depth of . Her gross register tonnage was 5,042, with a net register tonnage of 2,844. She was powered by two 8-cylinder Single Cycle Double Action diesel engines, each having cylinders of 28 inches (78 cm) diameter by 43 inches (110 cm) stroke. The engines gave a total of 1,556 NHP. ''Togo'' was owned by Hamburg-Bremen-Afrika Linie A.G. and was operated by Woerman Linie A.G., operating as Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie. The Code Letters DJXJ were allocated and her port of registry was Hamburg. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「German night fighter direction vessel Togo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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