Togo
1943
(Rhenania RSKM-5)
- Class: Schiff 14
- Displacement: 5,042 tons
- Dimensions: 418 x 58 x 21 ft.
- Machinery: 1-shaft diesels, B.H.P. 6,100 = 16 knots
- Armament:
- Complement: 350
- Builder: Bremer Vulcan, Vegesack
- Launched: 1938
- Actions: Built originally as Togo for Woermann Line. Converted as raider and renamed Coronel. Damaged by air attacks off Gravelines while trying to sortie to Atlantic, 13 Feb 1942. Returned to Boulogne, and after further air attacks arrived back in Kiel. Converted to Night Fighter Direction Ship and reverted to old name Togo. Worked in Baltic until end of war. In 1947 became the Norwegian Auxiliary Svalbard.
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