With a crew numbering 230 men. Her armament consisted of 2-10,5cm Flak guns, 2-7,5cm Flak guns, 7x4-2cm Flak and 30 Wabo. Oil bunker capacity 300 ton. Dimensions 93,00 (between perpendiculars)-97,00 (over all) x 13,2 x 5,2 x 8,4 (hold) metres. Speed 20,1 knots. Launched on 14 January 1930 at the shipyard of Deschimag/A.G. Weser, Bremen, Germany with yard number 882 for account of the Compagnie de Navigation Fraissinet, Marseille, France as a mail packet and passenger ship on the line Marseille-Corsica. Seized on 8 September 1943 by the German forces at Marseille and converted at Toulon into the Kreta which was completed End August. On 21 September torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Unseen 7 miles north east of Capraia.
