History During World War II
The M/S Togo was launched in August 1938 for the Woermann Line. for trade with African countries as a freighter with cabins for 12 passengers. At the outbreak of World War II, when German ships in Allied ports were interned, Togo was at Douala, French Cameroon. To avoid Togo being interned, her Belgian-born captain, Eugene Rousselet, slipped her out under cover of darkness to the Belgian Congo port of Boma. On 25 October, she sailed from Boma and, breaking through the Allied blockade, returned to Hamburg on 23 November 1939, where she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine.
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