V 404 Baden was a German fishing trawler that was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War for use as a vorpostenboot.

Scuttled in 1944, she was raised post war and became the French cargo ship Docteur Edmond Papin.

[1] Jakob Goldschmidt was built as yard number 286 by the Schiffswerft von Henry Koch, AG, Lübeck, Germany for the Hochseefischerei J. Wieting AG, Nordenham, Germany.

On 4 September 1930 her fishing boat registration was changed to PG 480 and on 10 November she was sold to her managers.

[3] On 19 February 1943, she attacked and damaged the submarine USS Blackfish, which had sunk V 408 Haltenbank in the Bay of Biscay off Bilbao, Spain.

[6] Baden was raised post-war, repaired and returned to service in 1947 as the French merchant ship Docteur Edmond Papin for the Sociètè Française de Cabotage, Bordeaux.