page_title: German night fighter direction vessel Togo
hierarchical_section_title: German night fighter direction vessel Togo
caption_attribution_description: English: Displaced Persons in December 1948 about to board KNM "Svalbard" in Genoa, Italy, for resettlement in Australia.
context_page_description: MS Togo was a German merchant ship that was launched in 1938. Requisitioned by Nazi Germany's 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 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 before being recommissioned in late 1943 as NJL Togo, a night fighter direction vessel, operating in the Baltic Sea.
  As NJL Togo, she was the second of the Kriegsmarine's World War II radar ships, and the only one to survive the war.
  After the war, Togo passed through various changes of ownership, name and function before finally being wrecked off the Mexican coast in 1984.
context_section_description: MS Togo was a German merchant ship that was launched in 1938. Requisitioned by Nazi Germany's 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 Kriegsmarine's World War II radar ships, and the only one to survive the war.
  After the war, Togo passed through various changes of ownership, name and function before finally being wrecked off the Mexican coast in 1984.
caption: Displaced Persons about to board HNoMS Svalbard (ex-Togo) in Genoa, Italy, in December 1948 for resettlement in Australia
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