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AD204 minesweeper (1916 / 1939)


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M39 1916 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
AD204 (ex-M42)   604 Vulcan, Bremen, Germany 1915 11.8.1916 9.1916 // 1939 captured by Germany 1940 (Nymphe)


Technical data


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

2 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 - 105/42 Tbts L/45 C/16, 30 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

 



Standard scale images


<i>M42</i> 1918
M42 1918


Graphics


<i>M39</i> 1916 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
M39 1916 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


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.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.