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M39 1916

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
M27		363	Neptun, Rostock	1915	15.4.1916	5.1916	collision 11.8.1916
M28, 3.1929- Pelikan, 10.1940- M528		364	Neptun, Rostock	1915	6.5.1916	6.1916	test ship 3.1929, minesweeper 10.1940, surrendered 5.1945, sold 1947
M29		365	Neptun, Rostock	1915	27.5.1916	7.1916	stricken 10.1921
M30		366	Neptun, Rostock	1915	17.6.1916	8.1916	stricken 10.1921
M31		381	Seebeck, Geestemünde	1915	30.4.1916	6.1916	sunk 7.10.1917
M32		382	Seebeck, Geestemünde	1915	14.5.1916	6.1916	stricken 3.1920
M33		383	Seebeck, Geestemünde	1915	25.6.1916	7.1916	stricken 3.1920
M34		384	Seebeck, Geestemünde	1915	25.6.1916	8.1916	stricken 3.1920
M35		279	Tecklenborg, Geestemünde	1915	18.5.1916	6.1916	stricken 10.1921
M36		280	Tecklenborg, Geestemünde	1915	3.6.1916	7.1916	sunk 23.3.1918
M37		281	Tecklenborg, Geestemünde	1915	24.6.1916	8.1916	stricken 3.1920
M38		282	Tecklenborg, Geestemünde	1915	13.7.1916	8.1916	stricken 2.1922
M39		601	Vulcan, Bremen	1915	27.5.1916	7.1916	sunk 20.4.1918
M40		602	Vulcan, Bremen	1915	15.6.1916	8.1916	sunk 23.3.1918
M41		603	Vulcan, Bremen	1915	5.8.1916	9.1916	sunk 6.9.1918
M42, 5.1944- Nymphe		604	Vulcan, Bremen	1915	11.8.1916	9.1916	stricken 3.1920, mobilized by French navy 1939 (AD204), captured from France 1940, minelayer 5.1944, scuttled 4.1945
M43		141	Atlaswerke, Bremen	1915	7.5.1916	6.1916	stricken 10.1921
M44		142	Atlaswerke, Bremen	1915	4.6.1916	8.1916	stricken 10.1921
M45		367	Neptun, Rostock	1916	8.7.1916	8.1916	stricken 10.1921
M46		368	Neptun, Rostock	1916	19.8.1916	9.1916	stricken 12.1922
M47		369	Neptun, Rostock		19.8.1916	10.1916	sunk 8.6.1917
M48		370	Neptun, Rostock		9.9.1916	10.1916	stricken 9.1921, to Argentina (M1 Bathurst)
M49		371	Neptun, Rostock		30.9.1916	11.1916	sunk 7.5.1917
M50, 11.1937- Brommy, 10.1940- M550		385	Seebeck, Geestemünde		19.8.1916	9.1916	minesweeping boat depot ship 11.1937, minesweeper 10.1940, sunk 15.6.1944
M51		386	Seebeck, Geestemünde		10.9.1916	10.1916	stricken 9.1921, to Argentina (M2 Fourner)
M52		387	Seebeck, Geestemünde		22.11.1916	11.1916	stricken 9.1921, to Argentina (M3 Jorge)
M53		388	Seebeck, Geestemünde		22.11.1916	12.1916	stricken 9.1921, to Argentina (M4 King)
M54		605	Vulcan, Bremen		14.9.1916	10.1916	stricken 7.1921
M55		606	Vulcan, Bremen		7.10.1916	11.1916	wrecked 19.11.1917
M56		607	Vulcan, Bremen		4.11.1916	12.1916	sunk 9.2.1917

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	M27 - 44: 480 M45 - 49, 54 - 56: 486 M50 - 53: 476
Displacement full, t	M27 - 44: 507 M45 - 49, 54 - 56: 513 M50 - 53: 503
Length, m	M27 - 44: 56.1 wl 58.4 oa M45 - 49, 54 - 56: 56.0 wl 58.3 oa M50 - 53: 55.0 wl 58.2 oa
Breadth, m	M27 - 44, 50 - 53: 7.30 M45 - 49, 54 - 56: 7.33
Draught, m	2.25
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	M27 - 49, 54 - 56: 1800 M50 - 53: 1890
Max speed, kts	M27 - 44, 50 - 53: 16.5 M45 - 49, 54 - 56: 16.3
Fuel, t	coal 115
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(14)
Armament	M27 - 42: 2 x 1 - 105/42 Tbts L/45 C/16, 30 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear M43 - 56: 3 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 30 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear
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Project history

1915 order. Further development of minesweepers of M1 class. Propulsive output and endurance were increased. Both boilers were installed in separated compartments.

Modernizations

Brommy, 11.1937: main engine was replaced by 2 MWM diesels (1440hp, 14kts)

M528, M550, 1940: were rearmed with artillery consisted of 1 x 1 - 105/42 Tbts L/45 C/16, (1 - 2) x 1 - 20/65 C/38

M528, M550, 1943: + 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38

Nymphe, 1944: was presumably armed with 1 x 1 - 105/42 Tbts L/45 C/16, 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38 guns.

Naval service

M27 was sunk 11.8.1916 as result of collision with German s/s Paranagua in Baltic sea; M31 was lost 7.10.1917 on mines at coast of Kurland. М36 was mined in the North Sea 23.3.1918, M39 was mined in the North Sea 20.4.1918, M40 was mined in the North Sea 23.3.1917, M41 was sunk by own mine 7.9.1918. M47 was mined in the North Sea 8.6.1917, M49 was mined in the North Sea 7.5.1917, М55 was badly damaged by gunfire of British ships, ran aground, salvaged and foundered under tow 19.11.1917 in the North Sea, M56 was mined in the North Sea 8.2.1917. After armistice M29, M30, M32, M33, M34, M35, M37, M38, M43 and M44 have sold on demolition (on conditions of the Versailles Treaty). M28 remained as part of German Navy till May, 1945. M42 has been sold to North German Lloyd. M48 was sold to private company which has transferred the ship to Argentina.

All survived ships of type 1915 to a beginning of WWII served as auxiliaries: Pelikan as tender; Brommy as minesweeper boat (R-boot) depot ship. In 1939-1940 they were reclassified as minesweepers with assignment of former numbers. In the end of 1940 numbering was changed with introduction of new numbers of 500th series.

M42 was sold to Norddeutscher Lloyd as Nymphe , later she was purchased by French private person as yacht La Nymphe and in 1939-1940 used by French Navy as auxiliary minesweeper AD204. Nymphe was requisitioned in 1944 and scuttled in April, 1945. M550 was sunk 15.6.1944 by British aircraft at Boulogne.