The Capri (1846 grt/1037 nrt) was launched on Febr. 28th, 1927 by the A.G. "Neptun" Rostock and delivered to the Robert M. Sloman, Jr. Co., Hamburg. She was driven by III-exp. steam engine and achieved a speed of 11 kn.
In Sept. 1939 the steamer was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and it was planned to convert the ship into an auxiliary decoy ship, armed with concealed guns and torpedo tubes. Capri's new designation was Schiff 43 (TSK 4) and her main armament comprised two 21-in torpedo tubes and some 8,8-cm guns plus lighter guns. This project based on experiences made in WW 1 in the Baltic Sea, where the Kaiserliche Marine operated some Q-ships, the most successful of them being SMS Schiff K. The "K" sunk the British submarine E-18 on May 24th, 1916 with gunfire and badly damaged the Russian submarine Gepard by ramming on May 27th, 1916. Furthermore she damaged the British E-43 in Aug. 1916.
Returning to 1939, after already 12 others steamers had been converted to auxiliary decoy ships (Q-ships), rebuilding of the Capri was cancelled in Nov. 1939, however, and she was returned to her former owners. Put in service as a common freighter, Capri survived the war undamaged.
In May 1945 the ship was at Kiel and surrendered to Great Britain to become Empire Galaxy for the MoWT but soon afterwards, in 1946, handed over to the Soviet Union where she obtained the name Nadezhda Krupskaya. The steamer was extensively rebuilt and converted into a factory ship and parent vessel for fishing trawlers with a deadweight of 2925 ts. New measurement: 2448 grt/1391 nrt, the crew increased to 115. Mainly employed in the Barents Sea and since 1952 based in Nakhodka, Far East for the Nakhodka Deep Sea Fishing Base. Her further fate is little known, she was removed from shipping registers in 1956, apparently being scrapped in 1955.