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AD204 minesweeper

M42 1918

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
AD204 (ex-M42)   Vulcan, Bremen, Germany 1915 11/8/1916 9/1916 // 1939 captured by Germany 1940 (Nymphe)

 

Displacement standard, t

480

Displacement full, t

507

Length, m

56.1 wl 58.4 oa

Breadth, m

7.30

Draught, m

2.25

No of shafts

2

Machinery

VTE, 2 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

1800

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

coal 115

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(14)

Armament

2 x 1 - 105/45 Tbts L/45, 30 mines, sweeps

Complement

 

Ship project history: Former German minesweeper M42 of 1915 type was sold mercantile in 1920 but requisitioned by the French navy in 1939.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: AD204 was captured by Germans in 1940 and served in the Kriegsmarine as minesweeper (later minelayer) M42, renamed Nymphe in 1944.

M39 1916

 

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